Hi all,
Huge thanks again to the entire team from Intel, for their great work organizing XDC 2020, our first virtual conference!
As usual we're looking for feedback on both XDC itself, and the CFP process and program selection. Both about what was great and should be kept for next year's edition, and where there's room for improvement.
The board does keep some notes, for those interested in what we have already:
- XDC notes for prospective organizers: https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/RFP/
- CFP notes: https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/PapersCommittee/
If you want to send in your comments in private, please send them to the X.org Foundation board: board@foundation.x.org
Cheers,
Sam
First off, I think you all did a fantastic job. I felt that things ran very smoothly and, as far as the talks themselves go, I think it went almost as smoothly as an in-person XDC. I'm really quite impressed. I do have a couple pieces of more nuanced feedback:
1. I think we were maybe a bit too scared of overloading jitsi. Having more people in the instance for questions might have made that portion go better. As it was, there was only one or two talks that had any live questions. That said, there are a few advantages to having things funneled through IRC, the most obvious of which being that people can ask their question mid-talk and have it handled at the end instead of having to remember it for 20 minutes.
2. I really miss the hallway track. On Thursday, after the conference, Bas, Connor, and I used jitsi to have a chat about ray-tracing. That was really fun and I wish I'd done something like that every day of XDC. Maybe it's my own fault for not setting up said chats but I think it could have been made more accessible (I had no idea how to fork off a jitsi instance) and/or encouraged somehow.
--Jason
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:07 AM Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez siglesias@igalia.com wrote:
Hi all,
Huge thanks again to the entire team from Intel, for their great work organizing XDC 2020, our first virtual conference!
As usual we're looking for feedback on both XDC itself, and the CFP process and program selection. Both about what was great and should be kept for next year's edition, and where there's room for improvement.
The board does keep some notes, for those interested in what we have already:
- XDC notes for prospective organizers:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/RFP/
If you want to send in your comments in private, please send them to the X.org Foundation board: board@foundation.x.org
Cheers,
Sam _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:03:32 +0200 Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez siglesias@igalia.com wrote:
Hi all,
Huge thanks again to the entire team from Intel, for their great work organizing XDC 2020, our first virtual conference!
As usual we're looking for feedback on both XDC itself, and the CFP process and program selection. Both about what was great and should be kept for next year's edition, and where there's room for improvement.
The board does keep some notes, for those interested in what we have already:
- XDC notes for prospective organizers:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/RFP/
If you want to send in your comments in private, please send them to the X.org Foundation board: board@foundation.x.org
Cheers,
Sam
Hi Sam,
I'd like to make a note about using some more privacy-friendly streaming platform.
When I tried to watch the streams, instead of showing the video, youtube presented me with a GDPR dialog.
While it was glitched and unskippable for me, just the fact that Google made it non-optional shows their disregard for my privacy (and, IMO, the letter of law, which mandates opt-in). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to evaluate the dialog's contents due to the glitch, but online reports suggest they are similarly ignorant. All in all, I only access youtube via youtube-dl any more, and that doesn't support streaming.
When attending Akademy 2 weeks ago, they had a setup based on BigBlueButton that worked well without that sort of issues.
Cheers, Dorota
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