Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-10 Thread Ted Dunning
We still have to strike a balance at the conference level. I think that the questions to the PMC's will have to be of the form: "We have N submissions in your area, please pick m of these". That will let the PMC's pick within their area while the conference as a whole can find the balance between

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-10 Thread Rich Bowen
On 02/03/2014 01:22 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: Buy now I've reviewed most of the talks submitted in the areas I'm familiar with (mostly Hadoop ecosystem). Beyond the feedback I left in the system two trends emerged: 1. there are a lot of different talks submitted around Hadoop's YARN 2.

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-10 Thread Rich Bowen
On 02/05/2014 12:39 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Generally I am finding the proposals to be pretty good (as they usually are). With respect to de-duping I suggest we stay focused on reviewing talks independent of other submissions at this point. It is likely that some of the supplicates will just dr

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-04 Thread Ross Gardler
Generally I am finding the proposals to be pretty good (as they usually are). With respect to de-duping I suggest we stay focused on reviewing talks independent of other submissions at this point. It is likely that some of the supplicates will just drop out at this first review. Rich can then work

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > I confirm this impression. > > There is a similar glut of Cordova talks. In the Cordova talks, however, > many of the submissions are from the same few people and the talks are > very, very similar. > > A smaller set of near duplicates occurs

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-03 Thread Ted Dunning
I confirm this impression. There is a similar glut of Cordova talks. In the Cordova talks, however, many of the submissions are from the same few people and the talks are very, very similar. A smaller set of near duplicates occurs in Solr where a number of speakers have volunteered a "State of L

Re: ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Buy now I've reviewed most of the talks submitted in the areas I'm familiar with (mostly Hadoop ecosystem). Beyond the feedback I left in the system two trends emerged: 1. there are a lot of different talks submitted around Hadoop's YARN 2. there are a lot of different talks submitted around

ApacheCon CFP status

2014-02-02 Thread Rich Bowen
With the CFP closed (officially ... it appears that there are still talks coming in ... geez) we have 250+ talk proposals, including: 7 lightning talks 15 tutorials 1 mini-summit (ie, a whole track managed by itself) 3 labs (I don't know what labs are. Do you think they meant tutorials?) Which