Without going into to much detail I can state as that i think it makes much sense to *just* having two core days. One of the befits I see is that that it would potentially enable a lager emphasis on BOF's.
-- -mvh Oliver Propst On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Huge thanks to the team that are putting on GUADEC this year. It's > fantastic that you've stepped up, and Karlsruhe looks like a cool > city! > > I've been involved in the papers committee for a fair few years now, > and I've been involved in doing hte conference schedule for at least > the past 3/4 years. I was interested to see that your bid proposes > only having two core days for GUADEC next year. > > Until 2014, GUADEC had 4 core days. Then, this year, we switched to 3 > days. This was a bit of a challenge for the schedule: we just managed > to squeeze everything in, but only just. > > If we want to go down to two core days, we'll probably have to > radically rethink the schedule. Possibilities might involve cutting > the lightning talks, and/or cutting the length of the talks. It seems > like a good idea to talk about this early on. > > I'll also say that I'm a little hesitant about cutting down the length > of the core days from a social point of view, and that it would be a > big change from the 4 day conference we were holding until just last > year. That's not to say that there might not be advantages to the > change, but it probably deserves some discussion. > > Thanks again, > > Allan > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list > -- -mvh Oliver Propst
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