[Foss4g2011] Re: Academic Track Call for Abstracts

[Helena Mitasova]

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> i am still not in favor of 30 minutes slot for each paper.

I have already expressed many times my opinion that, 
given the advances in presentation technology,
and my 20+ years of experience going to several conferences per year
 20 minute slots for presentations in both regular and academic sessions is plenty
of time to get through your message and showcase what you are doing, especially
given that this is annual event so we mostly hear from the same people each year.
This reduces the number of concurrent sessions or gives more people chance to talk -
any of it is beneficial.

But it looks like most organizing committees think that 30 min slots for talks
are absolutely necessary so I have pretty much given up the fight and I am speaking up again
only because Venka has raised the issue. So I just wanted to let you know
that I still support shorter, 20min slots (15+5 or 18+2 talk and discussion) for the talks
but it is the program committee that makes the decision, so I am OK with whatever 
length they chose,

Helena
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