Dear all, It seems I misunderstood - David and Wolfgang are requesting 5 sessions (or at least 4) for their combined workshop. This would make it last all day on Monday and would solve the question of what to do with the free sessions on Monday morning. This does point out that one other potential use for free slots would be to extend the already allocated workshops. E.g. the astronomy people originally requested 5 slots, the SLA workshop combines two requests for 2 sessions, and the SOKU organisers requested 4 sessions. Dave.
-----Original Message----- From: ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org [mailto:ogf20pc-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Berry Sent: 25 February 2007 17:31 To: ogf20pc@ogf.org Subject: [ogf20pc] Allocating workshops to slots (DRAFT) - free spaces
Dear all,
As promised, I took a look at how we might allocate workshops to slots. Before going any further, let me stress that the attached spreasheet is purely exploratory. The aim of this exercise is to investigate how much room we have for manouevre. Even the mapping of workshops to days is conjectural, let alone the allocation of individual rooms.
The exercise does reveal some scope for flexibility. David Wallom and Wolfgang Gentzsch tell me they can combine their workshops into one, needing three sessions. This removes some of the strain. The result is that we can fit in the e-Humanities workshop and still have some sessions left over to allocate. In the attached scenario, there are two free sessions on the Monday morning, two on the Monday evening, and one on the Tuesday morning (although othe rvariations are possible).
I can think of several possible uses for these extra sessions and would appreciate your input on which of these (or others) would give the best results:
- I think we need an e-science community session of some sort on the Tuesday morning. One possibility would be to have an invited talk.
- We could try and squeeze in the e-health workshop. Although if this has a largely UK focus (even with an expended remit), Monday might be a poor choice of day - so it might involve a swap with the Astro or e-Humanities workshop.
- We could add some more technology reviews. We have specifically received proposals from OGSA-DAI, OMII-Europe and the Gridway metascheduler, and there are many others "carried forward" from OGF19. (Personally, I think Condor would be the next in the list in terms of widespread use).
- I am trying to fit in a talk from the European Commission. Currently I'm thinking of doing this by reducing Wednesday's lunch to an hour, but perhaps another approach would be to give this as an invited talk in a normal session, perhaps even combined with OMII-Europe? We'd probably have to jiggle the attached scenario to get the best choice of days for this.
Dave Berry Deputy Director, Research & E-infrastructure Development National e-Science Centre, 15 South College Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AA Tel: +44 131 651 4039