Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks"

2016-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carl Karsten [2016-02-15 12:07 +1300]: > I have seen tags be done well and less so. I am not sure what the > magic is. Not claiming that I have said PhD in tagology (Enrico Zini knows a lot about this topic…), but I think taxonomy is a huge deal here. Either

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks"

2016-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Asheesh Laroia [2016-02-14 09:32 +1300]: > If people have ideas for tracks, I could possibly be convinced to > do "own" one such track, which would mean doing the work of > finding speakers who canA talk interestingly on topics within that > track. I'd love to

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks"

2016-02-14 Thread Carl Karsten
Assuming some effort is put in (both coding and using the feature) I think a better use of time is tags. which should require a PHD in tagology or something before I continue ;) I have seen tags be done well and less so. I am not sure what the magic is. But I often see other metadata that to

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

2016-02-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Michael Banck wrote: > > > I've organized the science track at DebConf10, and back then I actively > reached out to prospective speakers and assembled a schedule. I think > we had an afternoon for us in one room. > > If we'd do that, I think

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

2016-02-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:04:35PM +1100]: > > I'd appreciate if we were able to add tracks to our current setup. > > OTOH, we have sometimes defined tracks based on preexisting talks > > rather than (or additionally to) the other way around... So we can > > get to that point

Re: [Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

2016-02-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 01:46:46PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > martin f krafft dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:04:35PM +1100]: > > > I'd appreciate if we were able to add tracks to our current setup. > > > OTOH, we have sometimes defined tracks based on preexisting talks > > > rather than (or

[Debconf-team] Event "tracks" (was: talk submissions: wafertest vs. summit)

2016-02-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gunnar Wolf [2016-02-05 05:43 +1100]: > I'd appreciate if we were able to add tracks to our current setup. > OTOH, we have sometimes defined tracks based on preexisting talks > rather than (or additionally to) the other way around... So we can > get to that point