Hi :) I think psychologists have found that it's difficult for people to maintain focus for more than 40mins. Minds start to wander or drift off. Some people have tricks to give their mind a break earlier. Things often don't start bang on the time they are supposed to, especially in community groups. So the 1 hour slots sound perfect and gives sessions "a bit of wriggle room".
I have been to conferences where some of the most productive work was in the pub/bar afterwards. "Networking" with people from similar organisations or other departments and finding that some problems are not unique to your own area but are fairly common and then finding that 1 person or other has a neat work-around (often without even realising the problem has been hampering other departments). At a couple of conferences there have even been deliberate sessions set aside as "workshops", usually to collaborate on some cross-discipline team-building exercise or just to catch up on emailing or to go on a quick sight-seeing tour (better as a 2hour block) or a tai-chi session to actively help the mind recover. Again it doesn't look good on paper but has really elevated the effectiveness of conferences. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 12:22 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks per day Hi, Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2013-08-27 11:41: > I suggest to make the slots 50 min - that gives time to move rooms without > need to hurry and will allow to extend a little over the regular time for > questions/when time-management was not perfect:-) yep, that was my plan, about 40/45 minutes + Q&A, so not totally 60 minutes per slot. Sorry for not mentioning ;) Florian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
