[PS] operational change to support not messing things up (any more)

[Jill Eastlake]

Hi,

My two cents ­ this is a great idea!  Since so many people are working on
the scheduling, and there are too many constraints for any one person to
remember, it is imperative to make some accommodation to insure that things
that can¹t move for an important reason don¹t move.

I also like the identification of the person/persons who should be contacted
before moving that item so that they can be involved in any possible
changes.

Jill


On 12/3/07 12:55 PM, "Rachel Silber" <rachel.silber at gmail.com> wrote:

> The point of my suggestion is that the rest of the schedule is still (I think)
> subject to a significant amount of change and that means that it's still
> possible for us to inadvertently move the wrong things when we are resolving
> issues. If you're going to be editing the panel descriptions anyway, adding
> (GOH) as a prefix to the title will really be helpful.  As you have noticed,
> the notes to program committee are not easily visible when you're working with
> the scheduling screens, but the program title is.
> 
> Rachel
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007 12:47 PM, krista ernewein <kernewein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tonight, I plan to make some adjustments to changes made yesterday. I plan to
>> call Michael and chat wiht him beofre moving panels (or rather undoing panel
>> changes) Afterwards I will make time to put in the program notes that a GoH
>> is on the panel.
>>  
>> Then I will send out the schedule to be reviewed (as i promised would
>> happen). Hopefully few changes will need to made afterwards. that's my game
>> plan so far and happy to hear thoughts.
>> -Krista
>>  
>> On 12/3/07, Rachel Silber <rachel.silber at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Until we get the schedule kind of firmed up, and everyone more familiar with
>>> this year's interesting constraints, we really need a way to mark certain
>>> items as special items that should only be changed with the permission of
>>> the programming divhead.
>>> 
>>> My suggestion is to add a prefix to all the relevant titles.  I would say
>>> that that prefix could be GOH, but it should also be put on the 501st panels
>>> and *possibly* on panels that have special requirements.   Would the letters
>>> DHO (for DivHeadOnly) be clear enough?  Or DNM (Do Not Move)?
>>> 
>>> Zambia folks, I am making a feature request for a checkbox that puts this
>>> prefix (whatever we decide it is) into a title field in the reports and
>>> operational screens but doesn't change the title in the database so we can
>>> give clean data to pubs.  Likely that's not something we can do Right Now,
>>> but for the next few weeks until pubs is the major database consumer it
>>> seems reasonable for us to change the data.
>>> 
>>> Any comments on this idea?
>>> 
>>> Rachel 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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