On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:21 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Anders Brander wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 13:18 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > >> I don't think that most people are there for the presentations, so I > >> don't think "packing out" the schedule is important. It's important in > >> conferences where attendees pay a lot of money to go, and need to > >> justify the expense to their bosses by pointing out all the great > >> content that's scheduled. We're not in that situation. > > > > Well. We shouldn't have lots of presentations, with the sole purpose of > > selling the idea to our bosses. But; I don't see why we should avoid > > people talking about their small and specialized projects. Some of the > > talks I enjoyed most at LGM2008 were some of the very specialized talks. > > Lightning talks! This is exactly the format small specialised projects > need - you get 5 minutes (an eternity!) to present what your project is, > some of the cool stuff people do with it, and what you're interested in > getting at the conference (Users? Hackers? Features? Feedback?) > > The additional advantage of lightning talks is that you can do say 2 > hours of them, and have 25 presentations, thus keeping lots of those > small projects happy. A third advantage: if one comes along that few > people are interested in, it's like the commercial break, they'll stick > around & watch it anyway, because in 5 minutes there's another one coming. > > Cheers, > Dave.
Totally. Louis, at the end of the day, you are organizing this, but in the end we have to ask ourselves what we our communities are getting out of this: 1.) collaboration time specific to our projects 2.) collaboration time between projects 3.) presenting to all about these collaborations 4.) discovering new projects And, I would rank our conference priorities in that order and time usage that way. So, I wonder if we can do that: day 1: collaborate within our projects day 2: presentations from major projects, set talks day 3: more presentations about collaboration, major talks + lightning talks day 4: collaboration unconference day But, I still really think that day 4 could be integrated into day 3. As I said, Louis, you are taking on the big burden, and you have done this before so you know what you are doing...just giving my few cents/eurocents... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA + Guangzhou + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org IM/skype: kidproto Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
