On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Deepak Saxena <dsax...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 19 April 2012 12:15, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 19 April 2012 13:21, Deepak Saxena <dsax...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> On 19 April 2012 08:53, Christian Robottom Reis <k...@linaro.org> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:43:56AM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >>>>> While we're planning for connect, I'd like to suggest that we do away >>>>> with team tracks all together and just have topic tracks. This would >>>>> align with our topic based approach to things now, and would be a way >>>>> to breakdown our silo's. The topic track would be lead by a topic >>>>> champion. What do people think? >>>> >>>> I ask myself whether in practice it makes a difference. In practice, at >>>> Connect, you want somebody to own a certain set of sessions. Splitting >>>> this by team or by topic seems to have equal drawbacks on either side. >>> >>> I'm not really sure if it makes a difference at the end of the day. >>> Also, are we really talking about topic tracks or sessions here? W/o a >>> CFP asking for externally developed presentations, I'm not sure we can >>> end up with many talks about the same topics. >>> >>> We're planning on some training sessions for Linaro noobs and also for >>> what I hope will be a large contingent of member engineers from China, >>> India, and Korea offices. Should "Training" be a separate track? >>> >>> Also to clarify, regardless of whether we go down this path or not, we >>> will still have time for hacking sessions? >> >> I think its actually makes the hacking sessions better. Why have team >> hacking rooms? We should have topic hacking rooms where each tiger >> team meets each other and starts to solve the problems they've talked >> about in the topic planning session. > > I dunno. I think a lot of the work we are doing in the groups does not > directly overlap, and when it does (i.e, platform integration level) > it's as easy as grabbing the right person. From my experience at prior > connects, a lot of the decisions around common infrastructure happened > in the hacking rooms where folks could gather around there computers > and boards in a shared space. Spreading us across rooms by topic areas > would loose that cohesiveness that I think is really key to the work > that happens at Connect.
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