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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:20:21PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 12:26 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: 
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > General users just looking to get into the beginner/user track would
> > > only want to be there for 15 min of welcome/orientation.
> > 
> > Sounds good, but that excludes the presenters of the user track from
> > participation in the BarCamp pitching/scheduling.  I'd imagine that at
> > least some overlap is possible there.
> 
> Paul, I'm not sure that the User Track and Barcamp audiences are
> exclusive either. I can imagine that many people will want to
> mix'n'match between the two -- there are devs who are 'users' in one
> area, and users who want to become devs. What if we plan for everyone be
> at the barcamp scheduling session and have all the tracks start and end
> at the same time to facilitate this?

The original vision of the user track was to be more of a day-long
session.  But I can see how offering instead a set of simple topics in
45-minute chunks would be helpful.  Is that what you're suggesting?

Paul