[Foss4g2009] Re: Tweaking and finalising the program [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bruce Bannerman]

What about running concurrent sessions as per WALIS or Spatial Sciences
Conferences.

That could allow us to free up some time.

Bruce


 

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> [mailto:foss4g2009-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Leslie
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 5:16 PM
> To: mapbutcher
> Cc: foss4g2009
> Subject: Re: [Foss4g2009] Re: Tweaking and finalising the program
> 
> I've had a look, and it's not easy for sure. In the original 
> we would have to reconfigure between the close of Wed and the 
> start of Tues, and again at lunch on Fri.  The new one has 
> times at lunch Tues and Fri, after hours on Wed and Thurs and 
> during the morning break on Thurs and Fri.
> 
> The problem is that with the addition of a keynote each 
> morning there is no longer time to run morning tutorials.  
> That leaves us scattering them pretty much wherever we can.
> 
> One solution would that instead of moving the morning 
> tutorials to Tuesday, we have a block after lunch on Friday 
> and just lose two Tutorials.  Then as long as we're willing 
> to accept a decreased capacity in the morning sessions that 
> will happen in the tutorial rooms, we only need to switch 
> things around once, and we only cut into six sessions 
> capacity.  I suppose we can just accept smaller sessions in 
> the tutorial rooms with the current proposal, and not drop 
> the two tutorials.
> 
> Mark Leslie
> Geospatial Software Architect
> LISAsoft
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> 
> mapbutcher wrote:
> > I think tables for tutorials would be very useful.
> > 
> > I'm intending to work Cameron's amendments into the program this 
> > weekend and I'll look at room allocation in an effort to 
> minimize room 
> > reconfigurations
> > - unless of course you've already looked and its not possible?
> > 
> > Simon
> > 
> > 
> > 2009/2/18 Mark Leslie <mrk.leslie at gmail.com>
> > 
> >> One question came to mind with regard to the room layouts. 
>  Will we 
> >> require a different setup for Tutorials and Sessions?  I 
> suppose this 
> >> comes down to whether we are putting tables into the 
> tutorial rooms 
> >> or letting people run their laptops in their laps.  I 
> bring this up 
> >> because the latest program proposal has the potential to 
> require six 
> >> reconfigurations (of two rooms) during three days.  The previous 
> >> required two.  The addition of tables would also reduce 
> the number of 
> >> people the rooms can handle.  Is everyone happy running 
> tutorials without tables?
> >>
> >> Mark Leslie
> >> Geospatial Software Architect
> >> LISAsoft
> >>
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> >>
> >> Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> * We have a spare keynote speaker slot. Paul Ramsey has 
> been recommended.
> >>>> Paul recommends Damian Conway, who presented to rave reviews at 
> >>>> FOSS4G 2007, and who happens to be Australian. (Will cost us ~ 
> >>>> $2000, which is in our budget).
> >>>> http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I've chased Damian Conway, and he has responded saying he doesn't 
> >>> feel he can give a worthy speech, unless he gives exactly 
> the same 
> >>> speech he gave in FOSS4G 2007, which he didn't want to do.
> >>>
> >>> So I'm hoping Paul Ramsey will accept the offer to 
> keynote the last day.
> >>>
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