Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks per day

Hi :)
I think psychologists have found that it's difficult for people to maintain focus for more than 
40mins.  Minds start to wander or drift off.  Some people have tricks to give their mind a break 
earlier.  Things often don't start bang on the time they are supposed to, especially in community 
groups.  So the 1 hour slots sound perfect and gives sessions "a bit of wriggle room".  

I have been to conferences where some of the most productive work was in the pub/bar afterwards.  
"Networking" with people from similar organisations or other departments and finding that some 
problems are not unique to your own area but are fairly common and then finding that 1 person or 
other has a neat work-around (often without even realising the problem has been hampering other 
departments).  

At a couple of conferences there have even been deliberate sessions set aside as "workshops", 
usually to collaborate on some cross-discipline team-building exercise or just to catch up on 
emailing or to go on a quick sight-seeing tour (better as a 2hour block) or a tai-chi session to 
actively help  the mind recover.  Again it doesn't look good on paper but has really elevated the 
effectiveness of conferences.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  




________________________________
 From: Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 12:22
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks per day
 

Hi,

Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2013-08-27 11:41:
> I suggest to make the slots 50 min - that gives time to move rooms without
> need to hurry and will allow to extend a little over the regular time for
> questions/when time-management was not perfect:-)

yep, that was my plan, about 40/45 minutes + Q&A, so not totally 60 
minutes per slot. Sorry for not mentioning ;)

Florian

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