Dave Landers

The 3-each-session scheduling at Colorado Software Summit pays off again.

I looked at the schedule, and picked (based on content) the sessions I pretty much want to see this year. I ended up with 18. There are only 20 time blocks.

But because of the way they do the scheduling, I was able to fit in all 18 of my preferences into the 20 time slots. Just try that at other conferences!

Here’s how I do my schedule, in case you care:

Since the iCalendar format schedule is now also available, I subscribed to that (I use Apple’s iCal). Then, I created a new “myCSS” calendar and copied all the sessions I might go to (that’s 18 sessions at 3 times each). Some of the time blocks only had one session I wanted, so I deleted all the other instances of that session. That opened up yet more blocks. Lather, rinse, repeat. In the end I only had about 3 or 4 time slots to manually resolve. It probably took me less than 10 minutes total (not counting reading all the session abstracts to choose the 18 in the first place).

Thanks, Wayne & Peggy!

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