Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 28. Januar 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break* before the start of the next talk. whooohoo. Totally! Thanks for reminding us of this. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50:52PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to adopt for DebConf. Here is one:

[Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Dear all, being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to adopt for DebConf. Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break* before the start of the next talk. I like this model more than the 1

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to adopt for DebConf. Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break* before the start of

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Personally, I think this is a great idea, and purpose we start practicing it at DebConf11. Adnan On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Dear all,  being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm naturally inclined to look for best practices

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
- very right - slots 1 h have multiplicity problems - the most far away rooms were argentina's, 15 mins ok for that - forgotten argument: chit chat w/ the speaker On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50:52PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: In addition to the good arguments zack made, i'll add one

Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)

2011-01-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org): To the best of my memory, the venue where we had the largest distance among rooms have been Argentina, but even in that case it was just 5-10 minutes of actual walk from room to room. I can hardly imagine any Hmmm, in ARG, the talk rooms were