[Free-RTC] dev-room talk selections, feedback needed

[Saúl Ibarra Corretgé]

> On 23 Dec 2015, at 10:09, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The dev-room managers (Ralph, Iain, Saúl and myself) have had some
> private discussions about the talk selections and I just wanted to share
> some of that with the wider community and potential speakers before we
> make final decisions and publish a schedule.
> 
> There were 27 proposals, 26 talks and one a request to participate in
> the lounge.  6 proposals belong to people who have been selected for
> main track, that leaves 20 proposals.
> 
> Of the 20 proposals remaining, they come from 18 different speakers (two
> people submitted multiple proposals).
> 
> We have 8.5 hours to fill, from 10:30 to 19:00.  For 18 speakers, that
> is 28.3 minutes each, probably 20-25 minutes each with 5 minute gaps.
> 
> Looking at it more closely, if we have 18 talks, there would be 17
> gaps of 5 minutes (85 minutes) and 425 minutes of actual talks.  Those
> 425 minutes could be divided in various ways:
> 
> 18 talks, 23 minutes each
> 
> 6 talks of 30 minutes + 12 talks of 20 minutes
> 
> 5 talks of 40 minutes + 13 talks of 15 minutes
> 
> Arguments in favor of doing all 18:
> - easy for the dev-room admins
> - People make a big effort to come to FOSDEM and it is nice if everybody
> can make a contribution
> - more speakers may also mean more volunteers in the lounge, more
> potential contacts with sponsors for the dinner, etc
> - At another recent event I attended, TADHack Paris, people were doing a
> talk and demo in about 5 minutes, they got through about 15 of these in
> 2.5 hours, videos are online.  TEDx gives people 18 minutes and that is
> very popular with audiences.  People who want to make long demos can
> also make their own demo video and publish it online very easily these
> days, so maybe we don't have to worry about giving anybody a long talk slot.
> 
> Arguments in favor of doing less than 18 talks:
> - Some of the speakers can really use a full 45 minutes or an hour, some
> demos don't fit in 23 minutes.
> - 18 speakers = 17 gaps = 85 minutes lost
> - in a short talk, the speaker really has to be careful about time and
> do everything correctly
> - more time for questions after talks
> 
> How do people feel?  Do any of the speakers have concerns about any of
> these ideas?
> 

I’d go with all 18 talks, 23 minutes should be enough to carry the message across.

Regards,

--
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
AG Projects





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