Programme: draft v2 done
Posted by Rollo Home on May 28, 2013
The long we/e was put to good use and the programme has been programmed, but requires additional 'reality checks' from the Programme Committee (I've also CC'ed Ian Holt to this discussion). Barry is going to provide you with password access to the 'slot drop' web application that he developed to handle this process.
Some points to consider as you review the programme:
1. Themes: these will not make it through to the final version seen by the delegate. We are going to rely entirely on 'tags' to guide the user through the papers.
2. The one exception to this is the 'newbie' session (day 1) - for which we need a better name: "Introduction to FOSS"
3. Rooms: the rooms are not going to be allocated at this stage - ignore the names at the top of the columns. A vertical does indicate a single space however.
4. We have not promoted any of the papers to 'plenary' slots as was discussed as a potential idea at F2F. We can still do this. Speaking of Plenaries (the invited kind: http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/keynoters/), can anyone confirm how much time we gave to them?
5. It's required for the workshops anyway, but an extension to the EB is a sensible idea due to the late release of the programme for which I apologise.
Some points to consider as you review the programme:
1. Themes: these will not make it through to the final version seen by the delegate. We are going to rely entirely on 'tags' to guide the user through the papers.
2. The one exception to this is the 'newbie' session (day 1) - for which we need a better name: "Introduction to FOSS"
3. Rooms: the rooms are not going to be allocated at this stage - ignore the names at the top of the columns. A vertical does indicate a single space however.
4. We have not promoted any of the papers to 'plenary' slots as was discussed as a potential idea at F2F. We can still do this. Speaking of Plenaries (the invited kind: http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/keynoters/), can anyone confirm how much time we gave to them?
5. It's required for the workshops anyway, but an extension to the EB is a sensible idea due to the late release of the programme for which I apologise.
Comments
Rollo Home on May 28, 2013:
Barend Köbben on May 29, 2013:
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk/slotdrop/#
rollo
foss4g2013
(please don't make any changes at this stage - note suggestions down and we'll compile them together).
Barry Rowlingson on May 29, 2013:
1. Go to: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk/admin/
2. login with Rollo's account details
3. Go to: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk/slotdrop
4. DONT DRAG ANYTHING AROUND!! All changes are made to the database, there's no undo.
5. Click on presentations for details.
I might try and make this read-only later.
Barend Köbben on May 29, 2013:
I do notice that you propose to put the Academic Track papers spread through the programme, not in a separate track. I assumed they would be separate, I guess only because they were so in past conferences. I guess there are advantages to both systems, not really sure at the moment what I'd prefer. Having a separate AT would mean we could have AT committee members chairing (who would know the papers). Mixing would mean that academics meet normal people and vice versa. What do others think...?
Whatever we come up with, I would prefer NOT to have academic track papers in parallel, as they seem to be at the moment in some cases...
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Ultimately there will be clashes - we've worked to minimise the most obvious ones, but are we to assume that the AT is really that distinct and of universal interest that people will a) not want to see anything else or b) want to see all the AT papers? I'd fear that the only people in the AT would be the presenters of other papers......
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Steven Feldman on May 29, 2013:
Not sure what the colours signify
Barry, yet again a massive thank you is due
Steven Feldman on May 29, 2013:
We have no capacity for organising anything else and even getting volunteers to organise would suck up time and logistics support. My vote is to avoid.
If we have a couple of unconference sessions there is nothing to stop some poster folk morphing into unconferencers or self organising an informal lightning session
Barend Köbben on May 29, 2013:
Talking about efforts that suck up time and logistics support: How sure are we that we want to go through with the Map Exhibition if the main organiser (Ken Field) is not supported by his employer...?
Steven Feldman on May 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on May 29, 2013:
http://2013.foss4g.org/timetable/
Comments etc, otherwise we tell the world.
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Clashes currently exist:
Slots 23 & 42
Slots 10, 17 & 38
Slots 71 and 101
Slots 72 and 120
Slots 69, 109 and 117
hmmm....that is clearly too many.
Steven Feldman on May 29, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on May 29, 2013:
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Franz-Josef Behr on May 29, 2013:
field of work). Hence I'd like to hear more than one of them.
Rollo Home on May 29, 2013:
Left with just slots 10/17/38 on day 1.
Rollo Home on June 7, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on June 7, 2013:
queuing them and handling them. Is there an online shared task list where
we can dump them and tick them off when done? By 'we' I mean me, you,
claire, everyone. Can basecamp's todo lists be tagged? So all programme
changes get tagged 'programme change' or something? We need a framework...
Now I've got django working on 2013.foss4g.org I want to get all the
presentations onto there and then we do all the management there - that
becomes the master copy. then anyone with admin rights can tweak the
programme, or the presenters and so on. I then need to think about how much
of the conference management framework we can use...
I can't do anything until Sunday, and that is 'workshop res goes live' day
(am currently working on that at the moment, but I can't do it all since
I'm on a laptop away from my sisters and... well its complicated). I can
probably spend some of next week getting the presentations onto the system.
But I can see possible problems (and solutions).
Rollo Home on June 7, 2013:
Rollo Home on June 7, 2013:
If you receive a change request to the Programme - here's what to do:
Barry, The Task / To Do list does not allow tags but I see that documents now do! That will be a help in future. http://basecamp.com/help/guides/projects/todo-lists