1) How about we have entire PMC vote on talks? 2) We need to do t-shirts. :) Do we need corporate sponsorship for that (i.e. $$)? I can look into that if so.
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:28 AM Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > As you probably know, the ApacheCon NA CFP recently closed. We received *a > lot* of submissions for the Cassandra track (thanks everyone!!!). 3x more > than any other project specific track and *almost* as much as the catch-all > big data track. > > Not only that, but there are a lot of good ones in there. To accommodate > this, we added another user-focused day (bringing us to 1 day of NGCC and 2 > days of talks) as well as another room. We'll be able to take 19 user talks > and 9 NGCC talks. > > If you are a committer (or by extension a PMC member) and you want to help > grade talks, please let me know by replying to this email and we'll get you > setup. More instructions will follow once we get a head count. As we need > to get started, I'll cap the number of people to whoever has replied within > 72 hours of sending this email. > > Thanks again to everyone that submitted abstracts! I can't tell you how > happy we were to see the response once we got access to the submissions. > > Cheers, > -Nate >