Agreed. IMO, the wider the net for the CFP, the more selection of top-notch proposals we get, which means more great presentations which drive larger audiences and number of attendees.
In other words, promotion of the CFP is critical for success of a conference. Yes, I saw LF do almost no promotion of it. All if it was done by the ASF and Rich and Sally. > On Feb 3, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) > <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > There is nothing stopping LF from promoting the CFP. > > Ross > > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Steitz [mailto:phil.ste...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:38 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: ApacheCon NA CFP closed > > On 2/2/15 11:47 AM, jan i wrote: >> On 2 February 2015 at 19:30, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: >> >>> Agreed! >>> >>> Also, after all is said and done, and Rich has some time to breathe, >>> I'd like to know just how helpful LF was this time around. From the >>> sidelines, it seems that they really didn't do an aggressive job >>> promoting the event and being a pro-active producer in trying to >>> drive speakers. >>> >> Being one who tries to do a little more than just help, I think we >> need to divide issues here. >> >> Content is our responsibility, as I believe it rightly should be, so >> finding and driving speakers is our part, of course with the help of LF. >> >> Promoting an event before the content is known is pretty hard and not >> very rewarding. The real (external) promotion start 14th February, >> when the schedule is in place (work which just started today). > > Right. One thing that might help would be to push back the CFP close date, > so there is more time between content selected and the event itself. > > Phil >> >> All that said, I believe in general we should look for ways to >> motivate our projects a lot more to participate (not only with talks, >> but also getting people to come). >> >> just my opinion >> rgds >> jan i. >> >> >>>> On Feb 2, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < >>> ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: >>>> Great job Rich, and those who helped. >>>> >>>> Sent from my Windows Phone >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Rich Bowen<mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com> >>>> Sent: 2/2/2015 12:19 AM >>>> To: dev<mailto:dev@community.apache.org> >>>> Subject: ApacheCon NA CFP closed >>>> >>>> Thanks so much for people that got their last-minute papers into the >>>> CFP system. We currently have 235 proposals. It is still to be >>>> decided how many tracks we're going to run, but 6 tracks would be >>>> (roughly) 108 talks, just for reference. So we should be good. >>>> >>>> If you've volunteered to review, you can start any time. If you'd >>>> like to review and aren't in the system yet, email C. Craig Ross >>>> <c...@linuxfoundation.org> and ask to be added to the CFP review >>>> system, and cc this list, so that we have some idea of who's being >>>> added to the list. >>>> >>>> We have 2 weeks from today to get the talks (tentatively) scheduled >>>> and notify speakers on the 14th, so there's a lot of work ahead of us. >>>> Thanks in advance. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - >>>> @apachecon >>> >
