[Battlemesh] WBMv8 -- a personal perspective

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Mon Aug 10 20:15:51 UTC 2015


>> I thought many talks were too long -- everyone got a one hour slot, while
>> many of the talks could have been done just as well in 30 minutes or so.
>> (I originally asked for 40 minutes for my Babel talk, but got one hour
>> anyway.)

> My personal opinion is that we had quite long talks too, or rather too
> many tasks per day. Defaulting to 40 minutes slots instead of 60 minutes
> might be a good idea (or to offer 20/40/60 minute slots in general?).

What about offering people a choice of 20 or 40 minutes, and reserving 60
minutes for exceptionally interesting talks and only if the speaker insists?

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weKNVNSG-vk

-- Juliusz


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