Re: WOWODC 2013?
Re: WOWODC 2013?
- Subject: Re: WOWODC 2013?
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:28:14 -0400
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> Once again, thank you Pascal for your efforts this year. I really enjoyed the talks, the location, and appreciate the efforts you (and your family) made.
My father did like to act as the barman for the last day.
> My only (constructive!) criticism is this: we should honour the time allotments for each session.
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> I know that sessions can go overtime, mainly because they are interesting talks/demos, but we owe it to ourselves as professionals to finish in the appropriate time. If we cannot, perhaps we allot time for run-off sessions at the end of the day, where anyone interested in asking further questions of the presenter of any talk do so at that time.
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> This way the next presenter knows they will start at the correct time, and we can all trust the schedule. So this means presenters must turn up on time too :)
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> I'm not talking "minute perfect" here, but even if we allow 15 minutes over for each session, we're out by a couple of hours a day.
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> On this, some presentations (Q & A aside) do not take an hour, some take two. _All_ of them are interesting. We need to assemble the schedule appropriately.
Yes, it's a problem we have every year, some years worse than other (the best year on the timing side of thing was in 2010). It related to two main problems: time of rehearsal and technical problems. Having one computer setup for all presenters will help out a lot. For rehearsal, well each presenter have to do their own timing so that we can build the schedule :-)
> The recording and wifi situation really must be sorted out if we want to be taken seriously, and we want the group to grow.
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> Lastly, the schedule should be publicly available over HTTP as a simple web page. You never know who might be reading it!
Yes, we did have it in 2011 in the attendees app, but with 4 presentations to do (took me 3 weeks full time to prepare them), I didn't take the time to resurrect the app. Trying to restrict myself to do only 2 presentations and having the event planner on site will help a bit.
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