On 19 April 2012 14:29, Ricardo Salveti ricardo.salveti@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:43:56AM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
While we're planning for connect, I'd like to suggest that we do away with team tracks all together and just have topic tracks. This would align with our topic based approach to things now, and would be a way to breakdown our silo's. The topic track would be lead by a topic champion. What do people think?
I ask myself whether in practice it makes a difference. In practice, at Connect, you want somebody to own a certain set of sessions. Splitting this by team or by topic seems to have equal drawbacks on either side.
I share the same opinion, as I'm that sure if it'll actually make a difference at the end of the day. Currently we were organising ourselves based on tracks (teams), and most tracks had their own projects, without shared effort with other teams.
Even when we had shared sessions, they all went well, as most of the time people knew what had to be done (as we also had sessions and tracks that were cross teams, like most summits we had).
I think it makes a huge practical difference to have topics tracks instead of team tracks.
1. Topic tracks break down silos, team tracks encourage silos 2. Topic tracks can be aligned and attended by TSC reps, TSC members could even be the topic champion. In team tracks, topics may be spread out over multiple sessions 3. Topic track goals can be established clearly before connect and those goals can be reviewed at the end of connect.
Cheers,
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo