Re: critics about our presence at LinuxTag 2004

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:34:59PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > > > I you even can't do this, ask Joey for the code and change it in a
> > > > way that he can administrate talks which don't fill a full hour.
> > > that would allow Joey to schedule talks shorter than an hour? I don't
> > > really follow what you mean here.
> >
> > The main reason not having a schedule with half hour time slots was,
> > that Joey currently can't administrate them, and I therefore set hourly
> > talks, although I knew, that not every speaker will use the full hour.
> > Therefore our visitors thought talks would fill a full hour.
>
> Well, I don't believe that talks shorter than 30 minutes are useful
> for the audience to schedule at all. Those could (should?) be held at
> the booth, maybe even on demand and not scheduled.

I agree with Joey here. I for myself found it even difficult to fit my
talk and the discussion in 1 hour.
IMO talks normally tend to get longer, not shorter than intended.

Gaudenz
>

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