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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
I'd say people should add their name, a proposed talk title, short description and a presentation length to the wiki. Far easier to keep track of all the proposals that way than having to trawl through either a mailing list or the forum.
Managing potentially dozens of proposals in the wiki doesn't sound easy to me.

Ideally, we would have a situation where each proposal is 1 page, and we have a summary with presenter/title and the one line summary linking to the proposal. But getting people submitting proposals to respect posting guidelines is difficult.

Originally Posted by lardman View Post
I should add that once we know what sorts of talks people want to do, it should be easier to plan the structure of the day, numbers of talks, sessions (depending on the number of topics and how they could be streamed), etc.
I agree, we should be flexible & see what comes out of the call for content - but we have time & space limits which we should be aware of. Let's say we're working with 40 minute presentations, with 5 minutes break between each one, and a half an hour morning break and half an hour afternoon break, and a 1.5 hour lunch. You end up with

09:00 - 09:45: Presentation 1
09:45 - 10:30: Presentation 2
10:30 - 11:00: BREAK
11:00 - 11:45: Presentation 3
11:45 - 12:30: Presentation 4
12:30 - 14:00: LUNCH
14:00 - 14:45: Presentation 5
14:45 - 15:30: Presentation 6
15:30 - 16:00: BREAK
16:00 - 16:45: Presentation 7
16:45 - 17:30: Presentation 8

End of day

So we have 24 presentation slots per day, max.

Cheers,
Dave.
 

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