On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:23:32PM -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Biella, > On Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, Gabriella Coleman wrote: > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Talk_Meister > > > > I want to send that out today in a few hours ideally. I will first send > > to Debconf announce and discuss and then send to my pool of programmers. > > > > Are there any mistakes? > > Great list! > > I've added some improvements: > > * provide the speaker with water > * not only tell the speaker, she has 10/5/0 minutes left, but also enforce > this > * tell the speaker in advance, that they actually only have $timeslot minus 5 > minutes available, so that people can breathe and change rooms after an > event. > > I hope everybody is ok with the last change :) > > Sadly the timeslots in penta leave no time between actuall talks, or rather > we > forgot to make them like that. 15min breaks between talks probably would have > been even better, but I think it's too late to make this change. Also I know > it took the ccconference more then 20 years of experience to realize > such "long" breaks between talks are good. OTOH DebConf is considerably > smaller, thus moving between rooms will not take so much time, so hopefully > 5min work well. > > Also please note that those 5min of breaks are not only needed for the > videoteam (which definitly needs those little breaks badly) but also for > everybody, it's simply impossible to move from Davis to Interschool lab in 0 > seconds and even 5min sometimes will be a challange.
The elevators in particular are likely to be a bottleneck. -edrz _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
