Re: GUADEC 2016: length and schedule

On 2015-11-26 11:52, Allan Day wrote:
> Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>> I've been to conferences before where speakers could request either a
>> short or a long time slot. For example, 20 minutes would be just fine
>> for me to give an update on Mallard happenings. Lightning talks are
>> fun, and I love giving them, but I can't fit everything in 5 minutes.
>> But 45 minutes for that would drag.
>
>
> You could do it so that the short presentations are a single track,
> and then the longer talks are multi-tracked.
>
> I've added a sketch to the etherpad [1] - you could have 12 longer
> talks and either 8 or 16 short ones, depending on whether you go
> multi-track for those or not.

20 minutes talks could work, but I don't understand the motivation for 
keeping those in a single track only.
You'll end up with only 20 talks for the entire conference. [1] Making 
the 20-minute slots multi-track would grow that number to 28.

1. This working on the premise that we either cut the lightning talks or 
the interns lightning talks + team presentations. If not, we're talking 
14 talks total or so...
- Andreas