Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-12 Thread Tassia Camoes Araujo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:47:32PM +0100, David Bremner wrote: > > A first round of talks accepted by April 15th would be help the > bursaries process. It's not a blocker if we don't have that data, but it > would be nice. > Just to be clear, we will definitely coordinate our evaluation proc

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-12 Thread Allison Randal
On 03/04/2015 01:43 PM, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: Second, do you see any way to move the deadline earlier, e.g. end of April? Not only would this help with press releases and attract attention. It also helps people to know a vague sche

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-11 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > Just to be clear, we will definitely coordinate our evaluation process with > the bursaries team. However we've decided to not have another explicit > deadline > in the call to avoid confusion. Personally, I care less about the deadl

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-11 Thread David Bremner
Allison Randal writes: > On 03/04/2015 01:43 PM, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >>> Second, do you see any way to move the deadline earlier, e.g. end of >>> April? >>> >>> Not only would this help with press releases and attract attention.

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread David Bremner
Richard Hartmann writes: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Richard Hartmann > wrote: >> If at all possible, I think quickly accepting a few good talks and >> then having 1-3 waves of accepted talks will help with press work. > > I didn't see any updates in this regard and still think it's really

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > I really don't like this approach. People who have a problem with video would > refrain from participating if they need to convince us that they have a good > reason. Yes video is important, but IMHO we shouldn't do it on the cost of >

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-09 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > If at all possible, I think quickly accepting a few good talks and > then having 1-3 waves of accepted talks will help with press work. I didn't see any updates in this regard and still think it's really important. What do others think?

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 10:06:23AM -0500, Tassia Camoes Araujo wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > Hi, > > > > below are my own opinions, I am not speaking for the content team as a > > whole. > > > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-06 Thread Tassia Camoes Araujo
Hi, On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > below are my own opinions, I am not speaking for the content team as a > whole. > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Four bits of feedback: > > > > First, are we sure we want to invi

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-04 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, below are my own opinions, I am not speaking for the content team as a whole. On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Four bits of feedback: > > First, are we sure we want to invite talks and leave it up entirely > to the presenter, whether they can be broadcast by

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > And as long as the registration is opened before that, we plan to send it on > the 10 March 2015 to d-d-a and debconf-announce. As you most likely saw, cate sent the CfR. By default, I would tape all sessions and require a reason for

Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-03-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Maximiliano Curia [2015-02-28 23:42 +0100]: > https://titanpad.com/I2ntDZGDH9 Four bits of feedback: First, are we sure we want to invite talks and leave it up entirely to the presenter, whether they can be broadcast by video? Shouldn't it be much more that we require permission to

[Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"

2015-02-28 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hi, In the content team we have been working on the Call for Proposals (aka Call for Papers/Call for Talks), we think it's practically ready, and we would like to hear feedback from the whole team for the current draft: https://titanpad.com/I2ntDZGDH9 And as long as the registration is opened