*bump*

http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/09/10/frustration/

Re-posting here my proposals for alternatives:

This was discussed publicly months ago, see around http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...=summit&page=4 . That was the decision made by the organizers. I think the system itself works for the reasons given in that thread already.

BUT the system was proposed in a way that a proposal arriving before the deadline would have anyway chances to get in the schedule based on own merits. I firmly believe we need to stick to this basic principle, and see what can be done to address it even at this point. I’m happy to help being a bad cop if you want. At the end it was me who proposed the idea (that worked extremely well last year, let me remind you).

I can’t find the place now where I commented to the content committee (or at least Dave, around August I think) that perhaps they were going too fast filling the schedule. Yes, the Maemo 5 / N900 launch being in September didn’t help but you realize that those things are decided well over our heads.

You can blame Maemo Devices for not having sorted out before who were the Nokians with the travel to Amsterdam approved. Who was not extremely busy developing Maemo 5 was extremely busy organizing the launch.

Anyway, looking at the schedule I see that there are many things that can still be done:

- There is some people with 2 sessions. Sorry, choose one and blog about the other one.

- There are some sessions scheduled at 30′ and maybe their presenters would be happy anyway converting them to a lightning session.

- There are some sessions so specialized that probably they can be moved to the 4th room (25 people) without much problems.

- We can decide that this situation is exceptional, there is plenty of content pretty good and extend the Saturday and Sunday schedule 1h. If someone is tired at that time he or she can always go to the hotel or enjoy the city. Less generic and more specialized sessions can be moved there since we know that committed people will stay at that time.

- There might be even sessions that look too weak now that we are getting some last minute heavy-weights. No problem, if they refuse to move to a lightning session or a 4th room session we can keep the sponsorship to those speakers (if requested), have an extra shirt for them and also an extra apology.

Can be done. As said, if you need help I can help. If only by helping you accommodate the cools sessions landing these days, victims of travel approvals and NDAs.

Being practical, I propose to meet next Monday with the content committee in some calm IRC corner or even a conference call, go through the schedule and be done with it.