On 09/21/2014 12:47 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:55:37PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> also sprach Allison Randal <alli...@lohutok.net> [2014-09-21 20:06 +0200]: >>> The best time for this kind of segment is right after lunch >>> [...], so you naturally have a larger gathered audience. > >> Interesting suggestion, which leaves only the aspect that these >> sessions could also serve to provide an incentive for people to show >> up and pay courtesy to the first speaker of the day. > > There's also the aspect that morning is the optimal time to communicate > new information that's come to light overnight. You can't use an after > lunch slot to communicate information to attendees that's relevant to the > morning sessions.
<shrug> It's something that varies a lot with the culture of the conference. For this particular conference, after sitting at the front desk every day of DC14, and watching the traffic patterns of session attendance, if I were setting a schedule, I would put hacking time in the morning, and scheduled sessions in the afternoon. Totally not my call though, and I won't mention it again. :) Whatever the schedule, make sure you repeat any important information from verbal announcements on the debconf-discuss or debconf-announce mailing list. Allison _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
