On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:40:34AM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
Last year, we had:
67 speakers (for talks and workshops).
This is about a third of the attendance, right? I guess there are two
factors in that: first, it's a contributor conference, and so we have a
high percentage of people with an interest in presenting; and second,
the funding issue (where companies, including Red Hat outside of the
Fedora community budget, are much more likely to fund travel for
speakers).
3 keynotes (2 + FPL)
34 talks across two days (five simultaneous tracks)
Wasn't it 6? I mean, not even counting the Awesome Track?
24 workshops across two days (four tracks)
In 2016, we have the same amount of days (4), but I wanted to open it
for discussion for changes to the scheduling and layout.
Do we want less tracks? Less talks? Less workshops per day?
I still think fewer tracks is better, but I'm not sure how to get the
right balance. I'm pretty sure six is too many. I've already suggested
doing lightning talks as a plenary session (that is, in the big room
with no competing tracks), and that's in the CFP, and maybe emphasizing
that even more as we promote this could help. Slice by time rather than
by location, basically. (Maybe even doing at and leaving the number of
tracks relatively high at other times.) Then presenters could choose
between longer time with a narrower audience or shorter time with a
wider one.
Hmmm, in fact, for the narrower audience, perhaps a workshop is more
appropriate than a talk -- or a workshop linked with an opening
presentation.
Also, at DevConf.cz just now, we had a Q&A session that was basically
"AMA for anyone in attendance in Fedora leadership in some way". For
Flock, that might be a bit too open -- but maybe not.
Do we still want the keynotes in the mornings? Traditionally,
we've
focused on bringing in external keynote speakers, but we had a lot of
difficulty doing this the last time we were in Europe. (It is also
unclear who is responsible for handling keynotes this year, as it was my
job in previous years.)
I think that's been good, and I think two is a decent number. I don't
know who has the baton for this, either.
Also, it seems unclear to me when the CFP closes (it is open now).
Yeah :)
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader