On 19 April 2012 12:15, Zach Pfeffer zach.pfeffer@linaro.org wrote:
On 19 April 2012 13:21, Deepak Saxena dsaxena@linaro.org wrote:
On 19 April 2012 08:53, 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'm not really sure if it makes a difference at the end of the day. Also, are we really talking about topic tracks or sessions here? W/o a CFP asking for externally developed presentations, I'm not sure we can end up with many talks about the same topics.
We're planning on some training sessions for Linaro noobs and also for what I hope will be a large contingent of member engineers from China, India, and Korea offices. Should "Training" be a separate track?
Also to clarify, regardless of whether we go down this path or not, we will still have time for hacking sessions?
I think its actually makes the hacking sessions better. Why have team hacking rooms? We should have topic hacking rooms where each tiger team meets each other and starts to solve the problems they've talked about in the topic planning session.
I dunno. I think a lot of the work we are doing in the groups does not directly overlap, and when it does (i.e, platform integration level) it's as easy as grabbing the right person. From my experience at prior connects, a lot of the decisions around common infrastructure happened in the hacking rooms where folks could gather around there computers and boards in a shared space. Spreading us across rooms by topic areas would loose that cohesiveness that I think is really key to the work that happens at Connect.
~Deepak