On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 06:53:47PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Hi Steve, et al.
> On 23/04/14 18:16, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I asked this question on IRC the other day, but now that we have a talks > > team, I can ask you all directly for your thoughts. I'm expecting to get > > conference registration opened today, and ideally the "call for papers" > > would follow shortly thereafter. Do you want to provide any guidance around > > tracks as part of the CfP, or do you want the tracks to be organized only > > after you see what papers people submit? (Of course, even if we suggested > > some tracks in the CfP, there would be room for adding other tracks later, > > or accepting papers that don't fit the pre-defined tracks.) > I have been away from this task for a while, so I don't know what was > done in the last few years. Proposing tracks seems like a good way to > steer the conference into some areas, and maybe even get more talks, as > people might be more tempted to send a proposal if the topic has been > already suggested. I also find that RichiH's comment on IRC is a good > compromise: > [18:15:49] <RichiH> [18:16:41] harmoney: from a speaker's PoV, i prefer > "these are our topics, please submit" to "these are the tracks; make > sure you fit" > The downside to this is getting the topics/tracks list done in time for > the CfP... > > And more broadly, does the talks team want to own sending the CfP itself? > > I'm happy to handle the summit development side of things and leave the CfP > > to someone else. > I don't mind either way. Great! Thanks for volunteering. ;) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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