[EuroPython] Mechanisms for organizing the tracks

[Paul Everitt]

Thanks for the fast answers!  We'll stick to the 30-30-30 or 60-30  
slots as you've described.

--Paul

On May 18, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Paul Everitt <paul at zeapartners.org> writes:
>
>> Hi all.  Godefroid and I are making progress on organizing the web
>> frameworks track.  Some questions:
>>
>> 1) The Indico system shows the timetable:
>>
>>    http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceTimeTable.py?confId=44
>>
>> a. Is this authoritative?
>
> No.
>
>> b. Does the web frameworks track one of the three parallel sessions
>> for all 3 days, or does it share time with others?  (Basically we're
>> trying to figure out how many slots to fill.)
>
> This is usually the result of a ding-dong between the various track
> chairs after the submission deadline... hoy many slots can you fill?
> :)
>
>> c. Does it matter how we break up each 1.5 hour slot?
>
> Well, we usually aim for 30-30-30 splits or 60-30 splits and not 45-45
> splits
>
>> 2) Next, for actually assigning talks to dates and times (as people
>> already want to know what day they will get):
>>
>> a. Does Indico have a facility for managing this?
>
> Yes, but I don't know if you have to be a manager to see/use it.
>
>> b. If not, and Godefroid and I produce our own talk->slot results,
>> how/where do we publish that?
>
> Email to me?
>
>> My apologies if this has been covered before!
>
> No, we need to start sorting this out!
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
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