[pycon-za] Official call for speakers

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 17:00:22 CEST 2012


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Neil Muller <drnlmuller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 August 2012 16:05, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's totally not. Pycon US has this as a default and it works quite well IMO.
>
> How much of that is due to audience self-selection, though? Since
> we're running only two sessions, and aiming to attract a wide
> audience, I firmly believe that providing adequate time for speakers
> to explain the problem background is very important, and would much
> rather err on the side of overly long slots as a result.

Ok. Let's retract a bit. Why do you say overly long slots are actually
better than overly short slots?

Cheers,
fijal


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