On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50:52PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm > > naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to > > adopt for DebConf. > > > > Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break* > > before the start of the next talk. I like this model more than the 1 > > hour model we have at DebConf for various reasons: > > At dc10, we did 55 minutes + 5 minute breaks. The overwhelming > consensus was that this was a serious mistake. Something like what zack > is proposing (45+15) would have been much better. > > In addition to the good arguments zack made, i'll add one more: > > * time for the video team to actually take a bit of a break, rather > than scrambling continuously between talks.
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