On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:07:45PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:22:07PM +0100, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > - About CFP: > > -what will motivate a speaker to send a proposal before the first > > deadline? > > Simple: they get a response sooner, and they can make their travel/other plans > earlier if their attendance depends on the acceptance of their talk. The idea > is that both speakers and many attendees can plan better when they know at > least some of the accepted talks earlier, even if not everyone will be ready > by > then.
Ok. I am fearing most of the people will postpone it to the second deadline and I am also concerned for rejecting talks too soon that end being better proposal that late ones. > > I think the sponsorship guidelines should be discussed soon also and > > published when the registration opens. No sure if it is a good idea > > discussing it in this meeting without a draft. > > I think we had a draft partially developed during the October 21 meeting; > check > http://meetbot.debian.net/ to read the log and/or summary. I need to check > with > one perennial sponsor before finalizing the levels (see October log for > details) but I think it can be ready soon enough to discuss this meeting. If > this turns out not to be true, we can always skip it. > I was talking about sponsorship guidelines for people requesting travel/food/lodging sponsorship. Mostly explaining how it works and what to expect. There is a already a proposal about a queue for bed/food sponsoring but the most problematic part in previous years was the travel sponsorship. Mostly because everybody got bed+food, even later comers. Ana _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
