On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 17:52 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> hey folks-- >> >> at the global-team meeting today, i volunteered to work on scheduling >> the accepted talks for DebConf10. >> >> I've never done this before, and would appreciate any advice or >> assistance anyone has to offer. I'll almost certainly need >> reasonable >> liaisons from the venue team, the video team, and the talks team. >> >> We've promised a schedule by June 15th, 10 days away. Advice from >> anyone who has done this before would be awesome. > > Hi Daniel, > > I was involved in doing the scheduling for LCA 2010. What we did > was to > write every talk onto a post-it note, and then we drew up a whiteboard > with columns for each day, and within that with columns for each room. > > We then stuck all the post-it's onto the whiteboard pretty much > randomly > and moved some of them around to avoid wrong-sized rooms, put good > stuff > for opening & closing, avoid scheduling clashes, ... > > This worked well for a face to face, but might not be quite so good > for > a team based around the world :-) > > > As an alternative though, I can provide accounts on a caldav server. > We > can then create a calendar for each room, and events for each accepted > talk, and move them around in much the same manner using a CalDAV > client > such as Evolution, Lightning or Sunbird. We can very likely create > the > inital events from an export of data in Penta. > > Once we're happy I can export the data to SQL to be loaded into Penta, > and we also have a set of .ics files for the conference. > > Just as an option, anyway, depending on whether you want to get > technological about it.
This sounds like a good way to do it in my experience. Digital tools are far too slow to do the initial organization. Post-ins are a great way to get the overall schedule laid out, then it can be put into a digtal schedule for the final tweaks. Shall we set up a time to meet up? .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Making boring techno music is really easy with modern tools, but with live coding, boring techno is much harder." - Chris McCormick _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
