On 28 December 2014 at 19:33, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > On 27/12/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: > > > >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=50855951 > >>>> > >>> Nice changes, Andrea! > >> > > > > We also need a 3-5 lines descriptions to appear at > > https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ACNA2015ContentCommittee > > > > I saw this request but was rather reluctant to expand it until we were sure > we had enough to do a "track". > > > > > > I'm not sure we can actually "do" this part. I think having the topics > >> will probably determine the best speakers. Hopefully, these speakers > >> will submit proposals. > >> > > > > We can do it in phases. As usual, we are a widely distributed project and > > indeed it's very hard that all the most competent people for each topic > are > > physically in the same place. For some topics we will have the best > people, > > for some other topics we will have competent people who can still > deliver a > > good presentation, for some we may have nobody. and those should then be > > removed. > > > > In any case, I would like to send out a message to our "announcements" > >> and "dev" lists about the topics and the conference before Jan. 1 if > >> there are no objections. > >> > > > > The "dev" list is OK for a start (last time I sent a request for talk > > proposals to the announce list, I got several funny but useless > proposals). > > So if we can start by finalizing the topics, then ask here if we have > > volunteers for each topic, we can start putting some names. > > > Maybe with the proposed/recommended topics, "useless" proposals will be > minimized? At any rate, the real crux of the matter is what get's submitted > through the CFP. I still feel the "announcements" list would be valuable. > > Maybe we can slate the announcement for tomorrow, the 29th, with today for > final changes to the proposals. > > Shall we add a draft announcement section to the proposals page? My feeling > is we should emphasize that, even though this is being held in North > America, some travel assistance IS available. And, I think it might be > worth our while to try to engage graduate level students in CSCI or > Software Engineering to present ideas on improvement to OpenOffice -- the > futures area? > TAC is for sure available (I am on the committee), we sponsored 12 people at budapest...and I would like to see the same level for austin. In general applicant on the same continent tend to get better scores, just as an advice. I am happy to help if somebody have questions about how to fill out our forms. rgds jan I. > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "There's a bit of magic in everything, > and some loss to even things out." > -- Lou Reed >
