On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:18:25AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
The DevConf.cz session was good. I think the situation is different at Flock. We keep getting the same attendees, which leads to people that mostly already know things, which leads to poor attendance and few questions. The difference in audience tends to lend itself to a better session when they might not be as familiar with the things FESCo and the Council are doing.
That makes sense. I think, also, the leadership Q&A sessions at the first two Flocks were better than at the third because at the first one, FESCo was talking about initial Fedora.next ideas, and at the second, we were doing controversial things (whoo!) and by the third, I guess everyone felt like it'd mostly worked out. :)
That said, I *do* like conferences where there is a joint wrap-up session. A panel and Q&A seems like a decent format for that, but maybe there's something else that'd be even better.
If we want to change the talk days, I'd say no less than 4 tracks of talks and a 5th being the hallway track. If we do less, we have to
Hmmm, do you literally mean having a "hallway track" on the schedule?
*shrug*. It happens anyway. Might as well list it for people that like to complain.
Interesting idea. Maybe we could make it semi-official, with a designated space (room?) and instruct speakers to bring after-session conversations (the people who crowd up to the podium) there, and generally encourage people who are up for random conversation to hang out there.
Which reminds me also of color communication badges... https://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ColorCommunicationBa...