[Chat] Collecting general feedback about the conference?

[Tim Serong]

Just to reiterate, it's not just papers and subsequent conf teams who
can benefit from this.  It's *really* helpful for speakers to receive
individual (constructive) feedback, even if it's never published, and
never goes to papers/council.

On 01/26/2017 03:17 PM, Paul Del via Chat wrote:
> There is a great mix of feedback.
> 
> But remember it is a volunteer organised and run conference.
> The team do their best to have a range of talks to suite everyone where
> possible.
> 
> I suggest you send your talk's feedback to papers chair
> papers-chair at linux.org.au <mailto:papers-chair at linux.org.au> and Linux
> Australia council at linux.org.au <mailto:council at linux.org.au>
> they can then pass the information over to the next team for 2017 etc
> 
> You can always help out and get involved to make a change.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Marc MERLIN via Chat
> <chat at lists.lca2017.linux.org.au
> <mailto:chat at lists.lca2017.linux.org.au>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:11:02AM -0800, Marc MERLIN via Chat wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> And to be more clear now that I have a real keyboard, I did enjoy the
>> conference like every year, my comments were simply from the optimizer I
>> can never stop being :)
>> While as I already said, my own talk was redundant this year, I'm sure
>> there were other worthwhile talks that were rejected simply due to lack of
>> slots, and I was worried that maybe one or more of those could have
>> filled the empty slots.
>> As you said, in real life (I don't have the data, you seem to), maybe
>> there was not a single talk that would have made the cut, and that
>> could have been given with little advance notice.
>> If so, that's life, nothing is perfect :)
>>
>> (and I'm bummed that I missed the notice that there were BOFs in there
>> instead, my bad for missing that)
>>
>> Marc
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