Re-reading that, I realize I probably need to clarify: 1) Entire PMC *+ anyone else who wants to volunteer* vote on talks. Not just PMC.
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:48 AM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >> >