XDC 2018 feedback

Mon Oct 1 15:58:11 UTC 2018

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:08 PM Markus Ongyerth <Ongyerth at igel.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> first of all thanks for organizing the event. It's been really interesting
> and a pleasure to attend.
>
>
> For me personally (and I got similar feedback from my colleagues) one of
> the main parts of XDC is personal interaction.
>
> While the talks are interesting and point towards cool/new tools and
> features, meeting people from different companies,
>
> working on the graphics stack was a quite nice experience and IMO provides
> more immediate value.
>
> Partially because of that, I really enjoyed the additional time spent with
> everyone (Tuesday/Wednesday evening + Thursday in smaller groups) and think
> it's a really valuable addition to the pure conference on site.
>
>
> For me, the only disappointment during the last week was to miss the i965
> talks, because I attended a workshop session. Though I doubt that's
> avoidable without blowing the schedule up in unreasonable ways.
>
> Hopefully more reasonable, I think the schedule (talks/workshops etc.)
> being available a bit earlier would be quite a bit better 😊
>
> Even if not in any "binding" or complete form. At least or us, it would
> also help with planing with the company, since this was the first time we
> sent people to XDC
>
> and I have to admit, I was a expecting a bit more talk about compositors
> or the X-server.
>

Thanks for your feedback. Fully agreed on the program going out too late.
There's a few reasons for that:

- We got suprised by the overwhelming CFP response. As I mentioned, one
week before it still looked very calm. I think if we pull in the deadline a
little bit, and get ourselves better tooling (discussions with linux
plumbers conf on trying out what they are using are already under way), we
should be able to get the CFP results out in 2 weeks, and the draft program
out in 3 (need some time to get confirmations).

- The other bit is that we didn't get any workshop proposals, since the CFP
neglected to mention that. We spent quite some time chatting with people
who submitted a handful of talks on similar topics to get some workshop
proposal in. I think if we address this and highlight workshop proposals
more, we should be able to get these into the program a bit earlier.

On scheduling conflicts: That's just life as soon as you have more than 1
track. And workshops in the big plenary just don't work, too many people.
We've tried to overlap them not too badly, but since we received more than
half proposals around mesa it was hard to avoid conflicts.

>
> ongy
>
>
> P.S. Drew said he's not subscribed to the list but he wrote a little blog
> entry, so I'll link it here:
> https://drewdevault.com/2018/09/30/Sway-wlroots-at-XDC-2018.html
>

Thanks. Drew also mentions the lack of compositor/winsys talks. We got
very, very few (I think only 2 or so), and ended up picking Keith's talk on
frame timing. If you want to see more compositor talks, then we need to get
them in the CFP (as talks or workshops), since they're very much in scope
for XDC imo. Might be good if we know some places (mailing lists or blog
planets) where we should feature the CFP. Or compositor people can forward
it and do some good PR for themselves.

Cheers, Daniel

>
>
>
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> *From:* events <events-bounces at lists.x.org> on behalf of Samuel Iglesias
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> *Sent:* Monday, October 1, 2018 4:40:02 PM
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> *Subject:* XDC 2018 feedback
>
> Hello!
>
> Now that XDC 2018 is over, it is time to gather feedback!
>
> We would like to ask to all the attendees and the ones following us
> online for feedback about the conference. We are going to forward the
> received feedback to X.Org Foundation in order to take it into account
> for future events.
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> Feel free to reply publicly here, or send it privately to us
> (xdc2018 at gpul.org).
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> Thanks!
>
> Sam
>
>
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