On 2011-12-22, at 1:55 PM, Peter Noerr wrote:

> Crazy variation number 3. Have two tracks which are identical, but time shifted by half a day (or some other convenient unit). The presenters talk twice on the same day - in the morning for track A and the afternoon for track B. That way there is no "speaker gulag", no time over-run (though, following Declan's point, how much time is left out of the week after travelling, so why not the whole week), and you get a chance to hear a really interesting presentation twice - or miss it twice! 

One of the things I've always enjoyed about single track conferences like Code4Lib and Access is that when you are speaking you don't miss all the other great (and more often than not, greater) presentations happening in other rooms while you're talking about stuff you already know.  It might be different for some folks, but for some of us giving a presentation is *mostly* an excuse to get our employers to release us from other duties and fund travel and the opportunity to learn.  

Walter