Hi, On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:21 +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.
I'm not so interested in keeping small projects happy, I'm more interested in keeping the listeners happy. As a listener I really appreciate the very specialized and technical presentations and discussions - besides the mainstream talks that most people enjoy. Well, maybe I'm weird ;-) /abrander _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
