Jonathan Oxer wrote: > Um, huh? Did you mean that I should change some code somewhere (where?) > that would allow Joey to schedule talks shorter than an hour? I don't > really follow what you mean here.
The code Alex refers to is at http://cvs.infodrom.org/ltp/?cvsroot=ltev > > - Some speakers prepared their talk for the wrong audience. > > > > Possible solution: If you are going to do a talk at a DebianDay next > > year, don't forget that the audience will be mainly Debian Developers > > and experienced users. > > Yes, I was guilty of doing that (which is also partly why my talk was > short). Since I had not ever been to LinuxTag before (it's rather > expensive, the airfare cost me about AU$3000) all I knew about it was > from the website. I was under the impression that it was primarily a > user-conference, not a developer conference, so I prepared on the basis > that the audience would probably be technical end-users. I didn't know > that DebianDay would be so separated from the main conference that only > hardcore DDs who already know how to package kernels would go to it - I > thought it would be part of the main venue, and it would be likely that > normal conference attendees would be there. Those who can read know more... http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2004/faq.html#talk http://www.debian.org/events/2004/0623-linuxtag http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2004/day.html (http://www.debian.org/News/2004/20040619) Regards, Joey -- This is GNU/Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
