[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Help putting talks into sessions

[Volker Mische]

Hi Gert-Jan,

the sheet to work on is the "current". In case someone hasn't the link
to it anymore, I've sent it to the people that were attending the
meetings. If I forgot anyone, let me know (I can't share it publicly as
some spreadsheets contain personal information).

Please group 3 talks into one session. A session means that people that
one to hear one of talks in there, are likely to interested in the other
ones as well. This often leads to thematically related talks. You'll get
the idea if you look through the "session" column where I already
grouped talks.

You'll notice that sometimes there's only two talks with the same
session name. This is when I found two tightly related talks, where I
couldn't find a third fitting one. A good example is "MapServer", where
we just have only 2 talks about.

Please keep the number of sessions with 2 talks an exception. We've only
7 slots for them. Please also don't give more than 3 talks the same
session name.

I hope things are clearer now, if not, please ask again :)

Cheers,
  Volker


On 05/22/2016 09:03 PM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl wrote:
> Hi Volker,
> 
> Can you give me (and possibly the ProgComm members as well) a little more instruction?
> One mail is referring to the "current" tab, an earlier mail is referring to the "final" tab.
> And perhaps some ProgComm members don't even have a link to the sheet anymore..
> 
> Or am I supposed to group them within the Frab system?
> 
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> Gert-Jan
> 
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: FOSS4G2016 [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Volker Mische
> Verzonden: vrijdag 20 mei 2016 23:50
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> Onderwerp: Re: [FOSS4G2016] [Program] Help putting talks into sessions
> 
> Hi Program-Committee,
> 
> I've put half the talks into sessions now. It's getting harder and harder and slowly it is also touching topics I'm not that much informed about. So please help.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Volker
> 
> 
> On 05/15/2016 07:18 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>> Hi Program-Committee,
>>
>> you can get started with putting things into sessions now. I've added 
>> the talks from the academic track to the "current" table.
>>
>> The don't have any group yet, so feel free to add those if you read 
>> the abstract, to make the final session making easier.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>>
>>
>> On 05/13/2016 05:27 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>>> Hi Program-Committee,
>>>
>>> I was sending out this email too early. We should wait until we have 
>>> the list of the accepted talks for the academic trac, as we'd like to 
>>> intermix them with the general track, and that's easier if we already 
>>> blur the line within the spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> I'll send out an email once the talks from the academic track are 
>>> also in the spreadsheet (probably on Monday).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Volker
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/13/2016 04:05 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>>>> Hi Program-Committee,
>>>>
>>>> once more it would be great to get some help. It's time to schedule 
>>>> the final program. I've updated the spreadsheet, there's now a sheet 
>>>> called "final". That's the table I'll import into Frab for the final scheduling.
>>>>
>>>> One task left is to put them into sessions. Please help grouping 
>>>> talks into session in the "final" spreadsheet. Each session has 3 slots.
>>>> Please note that we also have 7 sessons with 2 slots. But I would 
>>>> target to schedule sessions with 3 slots each. We will surely have a 
>>>> few left-overs that we then can schedule into the smaller sessions.
>>>>
>>>> So just go through the talks and whenever you find 3 that fit 
>>>> together, come up with some name for a session and put it into that 
>>>> column. It is of course also OK to have several sessions (with 3 
>>>> talks each) with the same name. Though the more specific the better, 
>>>> e.g. "OpenLayers for power users", "point clouds on mobile" or "remote sensing across poles".
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>   Volker
>>>>
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