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laidler at stsci.edu
laidler at stsci.edu
Sun Mar 15 21:45:24 PDT 2009
>->
>-> Uh, can I cast a vote for doing things in the opposite order?
>->
>-> How about starting with the lightning talks -- then those who want
>-> to carry on the conversation over dinner and/or drinks can do so?
>->
>-> Also, that way there is more of a chance of attracting people who might
>-> be only casually interested in testing at the moment, but whose
>-> interest and enthusiasm might be piqued by what they hear. There's
>-> not much chance of collecting those people if the answer to "When are
>-> the lightning talks on testing?" is "Oh, whenever we get
>-> back from the pizzeria, we'll find a room someplace..."
>
Hi Titus,
>
>I don't think that works well within the time constraints... the talks
>end at 6:10pm, and getting organized etc. for a dinner generally seems
>to take an hour, so I doubt that we'd be able to start dinner before
>7:30 even without anything inbetween. I personally get grouchy if I
>don't eat by 8!
Right, that would be a problem!
Looking at the schedule, some of the daytime sessions are set aside for lightning talks,
though, including that last 5:10 to 6:10 hour. I thought you were
originally proposing organizing a testing-dedicated
session during one of those times. No?
>I take your point, though. We can certainly plan to be back from dinner
>at a specific time -- say, 9:30pm? -- and a specific place, followed by
>informality at the hotel bar.
That would work too.
Vicki
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