[Chat] Collecting general feedback about the conference?

[Marc MERLIN]

Not quite what happened. I heard about 1 (or was it 2) speakers that were
asked to fill the empty slots but with too little notice to be able to
write a talk in time.

Marc

On Jan 26, 2017 06:04, "VM Brasseur" <linuxconfau at vmbrasseur.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 25, 2017, at 10:56, Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Michael for explaining that you already provide backup speakers.
> > I'm not sure what went wrong then, or if I missed something.
>
> Nothing went wrong. Everything functioned as intended. The organizers
> simply made a decision not to use the backups and to go a different
> direction. That is their prerogative.
> >
> >> In this case it worked out very well, I think. The organizers chose to
> >> provide an all-day track just for BoFs, of which there were more than
> >> enough to fill the available slots and meeting spaces. That sort of
> >> community support & building is part of the reason LCA is as great as
> >> it is.
> >
> > BOFs are great, but I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing
> > unless I'm confused. I saw no BOFs in those empty slots, just empty
> > slots.
>
> We are talking about the same thing. There was an entire room left empty
> on the schedule on Friday, at least partly due to speakers having to
> withdraw for whatever reason. That room was used for BoFs (which would not
> have appeared on the schedule) instead of talks.
>
> --V
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