Thread: Maemo Summit schedule updated
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2009-09-26 , 11:42
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
The own Maemo team helped demoting our own sessions since there was a bunch of them presented in the last moment (long story, nobody's fault). By doing that we made space to other good presentations from non-Nokians.
Not pointing fingers at anyone, I just think that the space constraint isn't that great yet and this is still fixable.

The schedule is a wiki, so if you have good ideas adding and not touching much what there is already in place I guess they can be still discussed.
I wouldn't edit the wiki directly as I don't feel I have the authority to do so and it can also mislead people if the changes aren't approved by the committee. However here are some suggestions:
  1. Extend Friday's schedule to 18:30 (same as Saturday) and add three Nokian talks at the end.
  2. Reduce the Saturday and Sunday lunch breaks slightly to 13:00 - 14:15 (same as Friday and still plenty of time IMO), move 15 minutes' worth of lightning talks from one day to the other and make space for 3 talks and a BoF.
  3. Reduce the Saturday lunch break only to 13:00 - 14:15 and get rid of the 15:25 - 15:45 break. Lightning talks move to 14:15 - 15:10 and another slot is created between 15:15 - 15:45.

Think though that there were other sessions demotes or rejected as well, so reopening the debate might be tricky.
I'm not talking about re-evaluating proposals though, just to find a way to include those that were dropped purely for space reasons. There shouldn't be much controversy in that I hope :-)

On the other hand, you can always contact Marius or Igor and ask them to improvise a gathering in the community area, with plenty of tables available out of lunchtime.
True, but official, announced talks that everyone interested is aware of are a much better option if possible.