2013-01-09 Program Committee Call
Notes from our TitanPad:
January 9, 2013
10:06 Jenn Cummings: If someone is outside (windy?) can you mute yourself?
10:06 Deb Smith: Can folks put their phones on mute until they need to talk
10:07 Patrick Lynch: manage excellently
10:09 unnamed: I don't think I have a log in to the wiki?
10:09 Neal Caidin: me - Neal
10:09 Neal Caidin: never mind
10:09 Neal Caidin: I see the sign up
10:15 Amanda Cynkin: My suggestion would be to include a separate track for self-paced courses, or to insert that into an existent track, so we can ask for proposals for this audience as well.
10:16 Amanda Cynkin: yes, trying to speak. my skype is not working well.
10:17 Amanda Cynkin: I'm not sure where to suggest this, but I and my coworkers last year also felt that there was a lot for professors on how to develop courses, and for developers, but not for actual practical usage of tools.
10:18 Patty Gertz: I have a silly question...are we gearing the presentations towards CLE 2.9 or OAE?
10:18 Kelly Geng: interesting question, but not from me :-)
10:19 Neal Caidin: Yeah, that is an interesting question
10:20 Patty Gertz: which question? The OAE CLE one?
10:20 Matt Hertzog: this chat is interesting. i didn't type anything until now.
10:20 Neal Caidin: To me/ OAE - CLE is interesting
10:20 Neal Caidin: imagining a balance of some sort, but don't know
10:21 Matt Hertzog: Hahah I'm the one that asked the CLE/OAE one...some reason said I was Patty...
10:21 Neal Caidin: plus it is a moving or unknown quantity to some extent
10:22 Ian Dolphin: Don't feel we should "gear" to any particular software
10:23 Jim Helwig: I'm here now
10:30 Neal Caidin: Sakai CLE developer community would like to know about local development efforts
10:30 Neal Caidin: so that they can advise/guide/evaluate for the core tool
10:33 Neal Caidin: Also there might be interest in a "User Focus group" (from a Sakai CLE working perspective)
10:36 Matt Hertzog: I agree with Amanda
10:38 Neal Caidin: bless you
10:38 Patrick Lynch: . mute to sneeze!
10:40 Neal Caidin: people will appreciate an option for early entry
10:40 Neal Caidin: for planning and budget
10:41 Neal Caidin: (not including the procrastinators, which is probably a lot!)
10:52 Neal Caidin: +1 to fill the gaps comment!
10:56 Patrick Lynch: abstracts do not inform us of the quality of the presentation
10:57 Patrick Lynch: +1 pointers
10:57 Neal Caidin: +1 pointers
11:00 Ian Dolphin: I have another call on the hour... thanks to everyone for participating and great suggestions!
11:01 Neal Caidin: bye Ian
11:02 Drew Wills: +1 60 min sessions
11:02 Amanda Cynkin: +1 60 mins
11:05 Jim Helwig: Drew is one of those long winded people. ;-)
11:05 Drew Wills: lol
11:05 Jim Helwig: I'm suprised he didn't vote for 90
11:05 Patrick Lynch: there are different session types, Q&A doesn't make sense for some
11:05 Neal Caidin: I agree, no hard line for Q&A
11:05 Neal Caidin: though often nice to have
11:06 Drew Wills: from my perspective, 45 or 50 or 60 makes little difference... the big question is whether we'll offer sessions of different lengths, and i feel we shouldn't
11:06 Amanda Cynkin: no hard line, but the option is nice. some sessions i wished would go longer, some shorter. however, standardizing is useful for scheduling
11:06 Amanda Cynkin: unless you want to say 45 mins in the mornings, 30 in the afternoon, etc
11:06 Patrick Lynch: back to pointers I suggest
11:06 Neal Caidin: Interesting idea to have shorter sessions in afternoon
11:06 Jim Helwig: Interesting point about scheduling different lengths at different times
11:06 Neal Caidin: folks usually have shorter attention span as day goes on
11:07 Amanda Cynkin: that would be me...
11:07 Patrick Lynch: i do
11:07 Neal Caidin: Attendees are the main focus
11:07 Neal Caidin: not presenters!
11:07 Neal Caidin: (imo)
11:07 Amanda Cynkin: i was talking about attendees
11:07 Neal Caidin: I know
11:07 Neal Caidin: agreeing with you
11:07 Amanda Cynkin: the nvm
11:07 Amanda Cynkin: then*
11:08 Neal Caidin: :-)
11:09 Patrick Lynch: good call - thanks Alan
11:09 Matt Hertzog: Good meeting...hope you feel better Alan
11:09 Neal Caidin: +1 thanks Alan
11:10 Alan Regan: Thanks, all!
11:10 Kelly Geng: feel beter.
11:10 Kelly Geng: better