Re: [guadec-list] Provisional Talk Schedule

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Lasse Schuirmann <lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:
...
> I'm GSoC admin and we do have 24 GSoC and one Outreachy student this
> year. You planned 90 minutes for the interns lightning talk which
> makes 3.6 minutes on average per student, of which he spends .6
> minutes just firing up his presentation and taking the microphone.
...
> I do see that the schedule is rather full, still I'd love it if we can
> expand this slot a bit *somehow*.

Most years, GUADEC has four core days. This year it is three, and we
are trying to fit the same amount of content into the schedule. Short
of starting the day earlier or ending later, I'm not sure what we can
do. We've already shaved the breaks down as much as possible, as well
as having slightly shorter talk sessions than in previous years.

The only suggestion I can think of is to review the format of the
interns lightning talks session - encourage interns to double up where
it makes sense to do so, and get them to rehearse short presentations.

(Also, while everyone is extremely interested in seeing the interns
lightning talks, it is difficult to pay attention to a session that is
longer than 90 minutes, and some of the epic sessions we've had in the
past haven't been a huge amount of fun by the end, so 90 minutes seems
like a good limitation to me.)

Allan