Steven M. Parrish said the following on 05/25/2010 04:38 PM Pacific Time:
During the events FAD in Raleigh it was discussed that the next NA FUDCon should be 4 days long, up from the current 3. 1 1/2 to 2 days for Barcamp with the balance to hackfests.
I've been thinking about the barcamps and how much time it takes out of the 1st day. What I am thinking is this. For the next NA FUDCon we solicit proposals in advance. Proposals can be written in the wiki or the prefered method would be a video proposal. All talks proposed atleast X number of days in advance would be voted on by the registered attendees before arriving at FUDCon and will comprise the talks scheduled for day 1.
After the FPLs opening remarks we can have people make proposals for day 2 talks. We can then put up the normal grid and have people vote on the talks throughout the day and announce the following days schedule that evening. This will eliminate the hour or so voting and getting everything organized that morning.
Also since I believe day 1 would be a Friday I would suggest that the user tracks be scheduled for day 2. That would allow locals who have to work on Friday to attend those sessions on Saturday.
Comments?
Steven
My observation is that we loose a good part of the day by starting too late. FUDCon RDU in 2007 had breakfast at 8:30 AM which had people on premise and started at 9:00 which worked well. I know it is early for some people, but it seems a shame to loose half of a day getting started when our in-person time is so short.
John