[Foss4g2011] Re: [Foss4g2011-private] RE: Academic Track Call for Abstracts

[Geoff Zeiss]

Probably heretical, but why not make everything 20 mins to maximize # session, minimize # parallel tracks.
Where 2 used to have 3, 7 and 14 mins time slots and no parallel sessions
Geoff

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Subject: Re: [Foss4g2011-private] RE: Academic Track Call for Abstracts

I personally think 15 minutes is fine, but my attention span may be shorter than others.  I haven't been running between sessions though, so I'm probably not the best judge.  I'd rather rather pack in more speakers.

On 2011-02-02, at 10:35 AM, Moreno, Rafael wrote:

> Helena, Venka, everyone,
> I agree that 30 min is probably too long.  
> 
> The point of the 30 min length was to make the academic track presentations compatible with the general session presentations allowing people to rotate between presentations easily.
> 
> The feedback we got at the LOC was that in past years people had hard time attending general session presentation and then trying to go to an academic track presentation because they were out of sync. Has this been your experience?
> 
> Hence, we discussed that 30 min is probably too long and 15 min probably too short (2 academic track presentations per 30 min block). 
> 
> Tyler M., Peter, everyone comments? 
> 
> Thank you
> Rafael
> 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helena Mitasova [mailto:hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 8:20 AM
> To: Venkatesh Raghavan; foss4g2011 at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Moreno, Rafael; 'foss4g2011-private'; Muller, Brian; 'Tyler Erickson'; 'Serena Coetzee'; 'Thierry Badard'; 'Jeff McKenna'; 'Songnian Li'; 'maria.brovelli at diiar-topo.polimi.it'; 'song.osgeo at gmail.com'
> Subject: Re: Academic Track Call for Abstracts
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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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