Hello Lodewijk,
On 2016-08-06 10:36 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
unfortunately I have not spotted a response to this
email. Could
someone from the 2017 team confirm what is the situation at this
point? Or who I should be talking with?
Sorry, my response had remained a draft that I forgot to complete and
send. :-) Right now, the draft programme does not make distinctions
along the "presentation", "workshop" and "discussions" lines
more than
the type of space available (magistral vs tables). I expect the
allocation will remain fluid until we have a better idea of how many of
each type need to be scheduled.
That said, I expect many of the roundtable discussions would fit
Bird-of-a-feather sessions: those are explicitly set aside for
self-organizing groups that want a session in whichever format meets
their needs and are able and willing to take "ownership" of them. They
are generally more specialized or aimed towards a more precise public,
and are not selected by the programme committee nor curated beyond a
simple set of criteria[1] so they are more free-form.
-- Marc
[1] They need to be directly related to the movement or an allied movement.