Printed schedules?

[Ruth Suehle]

It just occurred to me that with websites and smartphone apps, I
essentially never use the printed conference schedules any more. I don't
have a problem with making one as usual for Flock, but if nobody else
actually finds them useful, let's move that money somewhere else! I can see
it being handy for having a list of maps and restaurants, but I think just
about everybody Yelps and Google Maps and whatnot on their phones now
anyway. We also have a mobile site schedule through Sched.

Thoughts?
Ruth

[Tom Callaway]

On 07/02/2013 04:57 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  It just occurred to me that with websites and smartphone apps, I
>  essentially never use the printed conference schedules any more. I don't
>  have a problem with making one as usual for Flock, but if nobody else
>  actually finds them useful, let's move that money somewhere else! I can
>  see it being handy for having a list of maps and restaurants, but I
>  think just about everybody Yelps and Google Maps and whatnot on their
>  phones now anyway. We also have a mobile site schedule through Sched.  
We have to print the booklet for the sponsors... I think it may also be
useful for folks who do not have Data coverage on their phones in the US.

~tom

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[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  It just occurred to me that with websites and smartphone apps, I
> essentially
>  never use the printed conference schedules any more. I don't have a problem
>  with making one as usual for Flock, but if nobody else actually finds them
>  useful, let's move that money somewhere else! I can see it being handy for
>  having a list of maps and restaurants, but I think just about everybody
>  Yelps and Google Maps and whatnot on their phones now anyway. We also have a
>  mobile site schedule through Sched. 
I find them quite useful at conferences because the wifi is generally
dreadful, I generally am on roaming data as fall back so it's
expensive and that's assuming that I've not already destroyed my
batteries and could get power to charge....

Peter

[Chris Tyler]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 16:57 -0400, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  It just occurred to me that with websites and smartphone apps, I
>  essentially never use the printed conference schedules any more. I
>  don't have a problem with making one as usual for Flock, but if nobody
>  else actually finds them useful, let's move that money somewhere else!
>  I can see it being handy for having a list of maps and restaurants,
>  but I think just about everybody Yelps and Google Maps and whatnot on
>  their phones now anyway. We also have a mobile site schedule through
>  Sched.  
For non-US attendees, data roaming may be astronomical (as an example,
US data roaming for me is $1/MB if I buy a "travel pass" before I fly,
or $5/MB otherwise). Thus non-US folks will probably only use their
smartphones in WiFi zones (hotel, campus), and a simple photocopied
map/list/guide for restaurant-finding etc. would very welcome.

-Chris

[Eugene Mah]

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I've heard comments from some of the Southeast Linuxfest attendees
that the printed schedule in the program guide very useful to refer
back to

eugene

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On 07/02/2013 04:57 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
>  It just occurred to me that with websites and smartphone apps, I 
>  essentially never use the printed conference schedules any more. I
>  don't have a problem with making one as usual for Flock, but if
>  nobody else actually finds them useful, let's move that money
>  somewhere else! I can see it being handy for having a list of maps
>  and restaurants, but I think just about everybody Yelps and Google
>  Maps and whatnot on their phones now anyway. We also have a mobile
>  site schedule through Sched.
>  
>  Thoughts? Ruth
>  
>  
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[Ruth Suehle]

That's why I asked. Printed schedules it is! :-)