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

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 22:53:59 CET 2015



On 23/12/15 10:12, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
>> 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.
>
I would go also for allowing all the talks - 20+min for everyone should
be sufficient.

Cheers,
Daniel

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