[Foss4g2010] Presentations and posters

[Paul Ramsey]

Let me reiterate that treating academic as a "track" (with its own
room and own schedule) impoverishes both the academic and non-academic
conference participants. You're going to want to track popular topics
into big rooms and niche topics into small rooms, and whether the
topic is "academic" or not in origin is not necessarily going to
correlate with how popular it is. You might have a session consisting
of three talks, two that were vetted by the scientific committee and
another than came in the general presentation door.

Don't make "track" be your unit of oganization, make "session". That
way (for example) the "postgis" session could include a general talk
by me, an professional user talk by simon and a numbers-heavy
benchmarking talk from someone in academe. There's two much variety in
our ecosystem to fit everything into 5 meaningful tracks, but there's
enough homogeneity to fit them into 25 meaningful sessions.

Best,

Paul

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Lorenzo Becchi <lorenzo at ominiverdi.com> wrote:
> wow, Cameron, interesting idea: 2 academic presentation in 30 mins, is it
> possible?
> what's the opinion of the director of the academic track?
> please remember what Cameron highlight about moving from one room to the
> other. The venue in Barcelona is big, it's all for us but we cannot grant
> that all your favorite presentations can stay in the same floor (AFAIK).
> lorenzo
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lorenzo is right to try to match the academic and non-academic tracks in
>> the program.
>> Attendees spend a lot of time moving between rooms to try and catch all
>> the presentations they want to see.
>>
>> We got feedback at foss4g 2009 along the lines of "it would have been
>> better if the rooms were closer".
>> So I suggest either keep the all presentations the same length, or match 2
>> academic to 1 standard presentation.
>>
>> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>>>
>>> Paul, others,
>>> does it make sense to have three session per hour for both academic and
>>> not?
>>>
>>> The program is still flexible and this is the time to decide about it.
>>>
>>> we will decide inside the LOC about the 15+5 for academic, I don't see
>>> any major problem for the moment to approve it.
>>> It would be easier, IMO, if the program can be synchronized between
>>> academic and not to let people easily choose their own scheduling of
>>> presentations.
>>>
>>> lorenzo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
>>> <mailto:pramsey at cleverelephant.ca>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Warning: Don't balkanize the academic track by choosing a different
>>>    presentation format from the other content. If everything is
>>>    consistent, the talks can be mixed and matched into rooms depending on
>>>    expected *demand and interest* rather than artificial categories
>>>    ("it's academic").
>>>
>>>    Best,
>>>
>>>    P.
>>>
>>>    On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Venka <venka.osgeo at gmail.com
>>>    <mailto:venka.osgeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>    > Helena Mitasova wrote:
>>>    >>
>>>    >> others may have different suggestion but how about making the
>>>    >> presentations 20min + 5 min for discussion which would allow
>>>    for more
>>>    >> presentations?
>>>    >>
>>>    >
>>>    > +1 for academic track. I would even suggest 15min+5 as in most
>>>    academic
>>>    > conferences where
>>>    > full paper proceedings are published.
>>>    >
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