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Re: [Debconf-team] Changing talks schedule?



On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 03:48:25PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:23:50 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2010, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > > If I understand correctly, the idea is to start talks at 9:30 and reduce
> > > lunch from 2 hours to 1.5 hours. 
> > is the eating area and the kitchen big enough to cater us all in 1.5h?
> > how much money does that safe? is it really worth it?
> [Attendee's voice from the back of the audience, feel free to
> disregard completely.]
> 
> I was following the "unmeeting" on Monday, and when this idea came up
> I had a slight "WTF?!" moment.
> 
> Even almost two days later, I still consider the idea to deprive all
> participants of half an hour of sleep and half on hour of recreation
> time over lunch in exchange for USD 275 not a good deal; that saves
> roughly 0.1% of the whole budget or USD 0.75 per participant [0] at
> the cost of an -- in my opinion -- significant cut into "quality of
> life".
> 
> I was close to transferring EUR 219 to ffis during Monday's meeting,
> earmarked with "DebConf10 - SOS (Save Our Sleep)" :)
> 
> Again, please feel free to just ignore my thoughts. -- And thanks for
> your hard work on making this yet another great DebConf!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor
> 
> [0]
> I hope I got at least the magnitude of the numbers right ...

Can someone verify the numbers?

Where are we at on this? Can we discuss?

-edrz

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