Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:27:22PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Andreas Tille dijo [Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:15:00AM +0200]: At some point in time (IMHO when DC 9 was running) there was a suggestion to publish the rating numbers in some way. I'd be in favour of this (but I'm not so terribly

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joerg Jaspert dijo [Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:42:11AM +0200]: While at it, we should also encourage people to rate the events they attended to, in order to give feedback to the authors/presenters. We HAVE a feedback system. We turn it on each DebConf. Attendees are lazy. If you get

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 06:53:01PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: The event Measuring Team Performance (712) is also very strongly connected to Blends (the effort was actually invented to see how a Blend works but it will be useful for other teams inside Debian. humm, this was already

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:13:09PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Agreed. Now, if getting pre-scheduled is the only benefit of having a talks selection team, we could think about dropping the team and just scheduling everything. After all, a relatively large group of us rated the talks and

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:15:00AM +0200]: At some point in time (IMHO when DC 9 was running) there was a suggestion to publish the rating numbers in some way. I'd be in favour of this (but I'm not so terribly keen on it that I would volunteer to implement it :-)). Humm,

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-22 Thread Joerg Jaspert
While at it, we should also encourage people to rate the events they attended to, in order to give feedback to the authors/presenters. We HAVE a feedback system. We turn it on each DebConf. Attendees are lazy. If you get them to use it, great. -- bye, Joerg I think Smithers picked me

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:34:20AM +0200]: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:48:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: ‣ Blends — Only one talk, although there is at least one other that You are probably refering to Blending Debian (711) But I would also see the following

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Kahn Gillmor dijo [Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:53:11AM -0400]: • We are scheduling so far on two rooms only. We can add a BoF room if needed, but it will not have video coverage, and we should only open it if the schedule gets too full before the confernce. last year, we had two

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-19 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/18/2011 05:48 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Ok, so I spent some time scheduling the top-rated talks today, and we have a preliminary schedule to start working with. Yay! Thank you, Gunnar! • We are scheduling so far on two rooms only. We can add a BoF room if needed, but it will not have

[Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ok, so I spent some time scheduling the top-rated talks today, and we have a preliminary schedule to start working with. Yay! Now, the schedule is preliminary if you are very optimist. Some points we still have to go through, and that will surely change things all around. So, with no particular

Re: [Debconf-team] Talks and scheduling update

2011-06-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:48:25 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: So, we have two very short tracks, and two tracks that cannot be fitted in the schedule I'd set for them (4hr - A full afternoon-evening session). How about setting the long tracks up on either two afternoons or morning+afternoon on