On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:37:43PM -0400, Ruth Suehle wrote:
Basically you're saying that just about all of the talks should
be of
interest to everybody. Looking down the submissions, that just doesn't
seem to be true. Having fewer talks also means giving a voice to fewer
community members to talk about the things they're passionate about. We
are one project, but one project with many, many different pieces.
These statements seem completely at odds to me. If we want to give people a
voice, give them an audience. Let's hear about the different pieces! I'm
looking through the proposals too, and I see a lot of topics which might not
appear of "interest to everybody" at first glance — but which in fact very
much could be. When it's all split up, we end up with each piece mostly
talking to itself, missing a lot of the benefit of bringing us all together.
And I'm not suggesting we have (significantly) fewer talks — that's where
the idea of making them shorter comes in. (Again, see the Libre Graphics
schedule.) Not lightning-talk short, but more focused on the important
points. (And if a speaker _doesn't_ want that, that's fine; this doesn't
have to be the whole conference; if it's really meant to be a talk focused
to a sub-project and people already involved in that area, we need room for
that too.)
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