On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> IIRC we _had_ implemented this idea for DC5 or DC6 (which ran using
> a different CMS - One written by me, and scratched since. Don
> Armstrong made the subsystem for voting for talks. But no, it's not
> adapted for Penta... and I doubt we have time to come
Richard Darst dijo [Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:59:51AM -0400]:
> > (disclaimer: I was not in the talks committee this year, I was just in the
> > scheduling hell team. I was in the talks committee 2 years ago.)
>
> I'd be interested in hearing what made scheduling so hard last year.
> (room size vs
Jimmy Kaplowitz dijo [Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:40:27PM -0400]:
> > who or what are the "on-the-ground schedulers"? How are they expected
> > to decide things? Are these people (or machines?) up for accepting the
> > possible workload we're setting up here?
>
> I think the idea is people on site w
Hi Andrew--
On 06/05/2010 06:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> 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 Evoluti
On 06/09/2010 11:59 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote:
>> 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
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 appreciat
