Re: [guadec-list] Number of talks

[Florian Nadge <fnadge gnome org>]

Hi Emanuele,

The plan looks a bit tight. the breaks are shorter than I would wish for and there seems no time between talks.

To move around, finish discussions after talks, and prepare the next we need at least 15 minutes.

At lunch people need about 10 minutes to leave the lecture halls, go to the canteen and and another 10 minutes back, the waiting time will probably be around 15 to 20 minutes, and the time to sit down should at least be 45 minutes. I would suggest at least 90 to 120 minutes.

The breaks between two blocks of 30 minutes seem quite fine.

Here is what I came up with:

09:30 - 10:30    Keynote

10:30 - 10:45    Short break

10:45 - 11:30    Talk

11:30 - 13:00    Lunch

13:00 - 13:45    Talk
13:45 - 14:00    Short break

14:00 - 14:45    Talk

14:45 - 15:15    Break

15:15 - 16:00    Talk
16:00 - 16:15    Short break

16:15 - 17:00    Talk
17:00 - 17:15    Short break

17:15 - 18:00    Talk

-florian

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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:

Hi;

Last year we had around 60 slots for talks, keynotes, lightning talks, and the AGM in the core days, spread over three rooms. I think this number is too high. If we keep the large auditorium for keynotes only, and we have 4 core days, I think we can get away with a single keynote per day, and follow this layout:

09:30 - 10:30    Keynote

10:30 - 11:00    Break

11:00 - 11:45    Talk

11:45 - 12:30    Talk

12:30 - 13:30    Lunch

13:30 - 14:15    Talk

14:15 - 15:00    Talk

15:00 - 15:30    Break

15:30 - 16:15    Talk

16:15 - 17:00    Talk

With two rooms over 4 days this gives us 48 slots. The AGM will take 2 slots and a break, and so will the lightning talks. This gives us approximately 44 slots for regular talks, which is close to the amount of talks we had last year. We can rearrange the layout to start earlier and have a longer lunch break as well.

So I guess these are the numbers I have in my head, don't know what you guys think. BTW, this also means we need to find four keynote speakers. :-)

Ciao,

 Emmanuele.

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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Debarshi Ray <rishi is lostca se> wrote:

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