General Conference Study Plan

gistfile1.txt

This is a means for picking a study schedule for the talks from General Conference in the 25 weeks leading until the next conference.  This will allow studying roughly the same amount of content from Conference each week.

- take a list of talk titles, speakers, and duration

- calculate the total duration, rounding up to the next power of 25
  and divide.  This is the target weekly study amount.

- note the shortest talk time

- for each week (1 to 25)
  - randomly pick a talk not yet chosen
    - if the total study time for the week is greater than
      (target - shortest talk time), done for the week
    - if not, pick randomly from the set of talks of duration less
      than (target - week total), if any