On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to try and allocate 2 rooms:
a) quiet hacking (low voices/discussion, but power and a place to sit
down) People could use this to work on talks last minute or write up
plans or the like without loud discussions derailing them or the like.
b) community room. people could gather in small groups and talk here
and discuss/hash out things or work on writeups or small hackfests that
only have a few people interested. If you didn't want to go to any of
the talks/hackfests going on then, you could wander into the community
room and listen in on all the small groups and join in if you wanted.
I guess thats a bit of just more formalizing the 'hallway track'.
(The community room could perhaps just be a big room after keynotes,
etc).
I kinda like this.. otoh, I think it might end up competing with the
hallway track rather than supplementing it. The nice thing about the
hallway track is that for an attendee you don't really plan for it...
you just find yourself more engrossed with the discussion you overhear
as you're walking between talks than with the talk you were originally
planning on going to.
Possible enhancements:
* I think even better is to have discussion-friendly hallways. Wide.
Friendly looking. Chairs. Power. This depends on the venue, though,
so we probably won't have control over this.
* Attractions in the hallway-track room: snacks. water. paper, pens,
whiteboards.
-Toshio