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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
