I wonder if we can't do something between "finalize down to the minute"
and get blocks of time that aren't a week long. In apps, for example, do
"web stuff" in one block and "email stuff" in another.
I fear that would make the heads explode of the people who are trying
to schedule stuff. If you put all the email sessions in a small
number of blocks, it'd be hard to avoid scheduling sessions at the
same time that are of interest to the same people. One of the reasons
to spread them out across the week is so we can have something
analogous to tracks, so people interested in apps stuff can go to all
the apps sessions and so forth.
We might want to make the bar for scheduling sessions somewhat higher,
with the goal to shrink the meetings from five days back to four.
That would save money for everyone.