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On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:54:42AM -0400, Ruth Suehle wrote:
> While my opinion is that I'd rather have too many talks I'd like to see
> than not enough, we heard that a lot, so there will probably be fewer. I
> don't know exactly how many.
"Too much awesome stuff happening at once!" *is* a nice problem to have.
Maybe it is just my attention span, but personally, I'd prefer shortening
talks over adding more tracks as a way of getting more content into the same
overall timespan. Maybe not all of the talks could work this way, but I bet
many can. Not necessarily like lightning talks with über-compression, but,
say, 30 minutes instead of 45. 50% more talks not just at the conference,
but that people can actually go to because they don't need to be somewhere
else.
+1, personally I like shorter 30 minutes long talks with possibility of having
one big split into two - introduction and detailed one for people who really
wants more details (when it's possible). As many times I'm interested in the
topic, especially if it's new thing to me but also I don't want to dig into
detail or vice versa - you skip directly to advanced topic.
But in the end, I don't think for most talks, 30 minutes is usually enough.
R.
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