DConf 2019: Shepherd's Pie Edition

[Iain Buclaw]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 15:40, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 23 December 2018 at 14:20:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
> wrote:
> > they cannot compare (as in apples to oranges) to high-bandwidth
> > low latency personal communication with all the people that
> > have an interest (business, technical, whatever)  and technical
> > expertise in the subject at hand.
>
> Then why don't we tweak the schedule to maximize the time spent
> on this stuff?! When pressed, everyone says their favorite part
> is what happens outside the talks... so I say we bring more of
> that inside the talk time too.
>
> I'd be pretty happy if we just experimented with more interactive
> stuff during the talks, like I proposed in my last message. We do
> that kind of stuff at my day job in-person retreats and it is
> pretty successful. (Though I'd prefer to go further away, this
> acts as a kind of compromise position.)

Perhaps it would be nice to have two tracks running.  One with talks,
the other with BoFs, so you can switch between talk / group
conversation depending on which interests you.

-- 
Iain