Re: GUADEC 2017: Length and Format

Debarshi Ray <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:26:24 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.guadec
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Hey,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:04:35AM +0100, Allan Day wrote:
>    - Switch to two days of talks and two days of "hack days".
>    - Advertise the conference as a four day event. The fact that the first
>    two days are talks would be a minor footnote only; when people say they
>    want to come, we give them the dates for the four days.

Four days (2 + 2) sounds too short to me.

In recent times we have had:
 * 2012: 7 days (4 + 3)
 * 2013: 8 days (4 + 4)
 * 2014: 7 days (4 + 3)
 * 2015: 6 days (3 + 3)
 * 2016: 6 days (3 + 3)

While a 8 day conference with 4 days of BoFs can be considered too
much, are we really struggling to fill up the slots over a 6 day (3 +
3) schedule?

Last time this was discussed, there was a concern about the lack of
good quality talk submissions. Did we explore the possibility of
having people from Elementary and Cinnamon attend GUADEC? Why do we
think that the quality of talk submissions have gone down? How about a
5 day conference?

I do like the idea of advertising the conference as one unit and
de-emphasizing the split between the core and BoF days. I am concerned
that going from 6 to 4 days would leave us with precious little time
for hallway and social interactions between people who barely meet
once every year.

Cheers,
Rishi

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