I strongly agree with this suggestion. I kind of suffered the flurry caused by people dropping into the room after time or leaving the room before time because of hurrying from room to room between the talks. (And, of course, I caused such disturbances as well when I had to switch).
I got the experience that conferences are better organized if there is time to switch between the talks in different rooms. Therefore, a 45 minutes scheduling (including 5 minutes for switching) seems a very good solution to me. Regards, Benno ______________________________________ ETH Zurich Benno Luthiger IT Services WEP J 14, Weinbergstrasse 109 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Tel: +41 44 632 57 65 ______________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M.-A. Lemburg Sent: Montag, 31. März 2008 12:03 To: EuroPython Mailing List Subject: [EuroPython] Talk lengths Andrew's article on this years PyCon: http://www.amk.ca/diary/2008/03/pycon_2008_a_look_back.html The comments on talk length are interesting... 30 minutes were considered too short. I found 30 minutes a bit short as well last time I did a talk in Vilnius. If you want to have discussions and more time switching between talks, then 45 minutes are a lot better, IMHO: 30 minutes talk, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes break and switching. What do others think ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 31 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
