Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/01/2010 10:38 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Another advantage [to having plenaries] might be to communicate specific concerns to the broader group, for example if we have a wrap-up session with reportbacks from track coordinators,

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-06-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 11:00:23AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Another topic I'd probably like to see explained and discussed is the status quo of the squeeze release. It's kind of the main topic of Debian ;) hrm. The only release team-ish talk i see is

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Thu, May 27, 2010 at 03:27:26PM +0200]: Hint: As a scheduler in two previous DebConfs I like to stress this point of Holger especially because I'm guilty for violating this rule. It should be clear to the person who is doing this job that it will be under pressure of

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Pablo Duboue
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Clint Adams sch...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: What do you think the criteria should be?  Or would you prefer no plenaries at all? I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: I remember Ana telling me on IRC something on the line talks that will make nobody go to a competing talk in a parallel session. That's a very strong criteria which /melikes. Does such a talk exist?

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-28 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:05:07PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Pablo Duboue wrote: I remember Ana telling me on IRC something on the line talks that will make nobody go to a competing talk in a parallel session. That's a very strong criteria which

[Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
The talks team had a meeting on #debconf-team this evening. Thanks to everyone who showed up. meetbot summary (and links to logs) are here: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2010/debconf-team.2010-05-26-23.07.html I wanted to raise two distinct issues with the broader debconf team from

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Is anyone interested in acting as Scheduler? Does anyone with experience from scheduling past debconfs have advice to offer? do not schedule anything without giving at least 24h warning in advance. never. (and to repeat: I'm

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:01:20AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: There was quite a bit of discussion about having a select few events scheduled with no other concurrent events. We are calling these Plenaries for the moment. If we decide we want to have them, we might run into a bit of

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:38:20AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Is anyone interested in acting as Scheduler? Does anyone with experience from scheduling past debconfs have advice to offer? do not schedule anything without giving at

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 08:47 AM, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:01:20AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: There was quite a bit of discussion about having a select few events scheduled with no other concurrent events. What are the criteria for these select few? I would assume the

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: What do you think the criteria should be? Or would you prefer no plenaries at all? I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the point of them is. ___

Re: [Debconf-team] talks team followup: scheduling and plenaries

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2010 11:01 AM, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: What do you think the criteria should be? Or would you prefer no plenaries at all? I don't think I can answer this because I'm not yet sure what the point of them is. One