On 27 July 2016 at 10:28, Allan Day <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > Debarshi Ray <rishi...@lostca.se> wrote: > ... >> >> > - Switch to two days of talks and two days of "hack days". >> > - Advertise the conference as a four day event. The fact that the >> > first >> > two days are talks would be a minor footnote only; when people say >> > they >> > want to come, we give them the dates for the four days. >> >> Four days (2 + 2) sounds too short to me.
I would be happy to see a 2 day conference if there are 3 tracks. I do think that the BoFs need 3 days or we need more rooms than we currently have. The benefit of longer BoF days is that teams can work hackfests in with GUADEC rather than have a separate event. Additionally, fewer BoFs clash if slots are available over more days. >> While a 8 day conference with 4 days of BoFs can be considered too >> much, are we really struggling to fill up the slots over a 6 day (3 + >> 3) schedule? > > > Not that I'm aware of. > >> >> Last time this was discussed, there was a concern about the lack of >> good quality talk submissions. Did we explore the possibility of >> having people from Elementary and Cinnamon attend GUADEC? Why do we >> think that the quality of talk submissions have gone down? How about a >> 5 day conference? > > > I'm not particularly concerned about talk quality and that's not what's > motivating this proposal. > >> I do like the idea of advertising the conference as one unit and >> de-emphasizing the split between the core and BoF days. I am concerned >> that going from 6 to 4 days would leave us with precious little time >> for hallway and social interactions between people who barely meet >> once every year. > > > In my experience most people only attend for 3 or 4 days. One aspect of the > proposal is to align the conference format with this pattern of attendance. > Another aspect is to increase the amount of hallway time for those attendees > who only attend for 3 or 4 days, since it will mean that they will spend a > smaller proportion of their time sitting in talks. Most sponsored attendees are coming for 6 days this year, with a few people only able to make the weekend or weekend +1/2 days because of work commitments. I think it's more important to make sure that the core days do take place over the weekend. > A possible modification to the proposal would be to tack on an additional > "unconference" day at the end, making it 4+1 days. The unconference day > would have minimal organisation, would be presented as being optional, and > would primarily be for those who want to hang around a bit longer and hack. > > Thanks for the feedback, Debarshi! > > Allan > > _______________________________________________ > guadec-list mailing list > guadec-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list > _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
