[Mesa-dev] XDC 2017 feedback

[Ryan Houdek]

It was a great time! Next year I should pay more attention that this was
happening so I don't sign up at the last moment causing me to miss a day,
and having a fever on the last day.
Looking forward to next year's!

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> On 09/26/2017 09:57 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First again big thanks to Stéphane and Jennifer for organizing a great
> XDC.
> >
> > Like last year we'd like to hear feedback on how this year's XDC went,
> > both the good (and what you'd like to see more of) and the not so
> > good. Talk selection, organization, location, scheduling of talks,
> > anything really.
>
> Not scheduling it to conflict with another industry event would be a
> good start.  This is the first XDC that I've missed in nearly a decade.
> I know I'm not the only person that missed one or the other due to
> scheduling fail.
>
> > Here's a few things we took into account from Helsinki and tried to
> apply:
> > - More breaks for more hallway track.
> > - Try to schedule the hot topics on the first day (did we pick the
> > right ones) for better hallway track.
> > - More lightning talk time to give all the late/rejected submissions
> > some place to give a quick showcase.
> >
> > Things that didn't work out perfectly this year and that we'll try to
> > get better at next year:
> > - Lots of people missed the submission deadline and their talks were
> > rejected only because of that. We'll do better PR by sending out a
> > pile of reminders.
> > - Comparitively few people asked for travel assistance. No idea
> > whether this was a year with more budget around, or whether this isn't
> > all that well know and we need to make more PR in maybe the call for
> > papers about it.
> >
> > But that's just the stuff we've gathered already, we'd like to hear
> > more feedback. Just reply to this mail or send a mail to
> > board at foundation.x.org if you don't want the entire world to read it.
> > And if you want to send at pseudonymous feedback, drop a pastebin onto
> > the #xf-bod channel on the OFTC irc server.
> >
> > Thanks, Daniel
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