Re: Keynote suggestion: MIFOS

2014-01-29 Thread jan i
On 29 January 2014 08:32, Ross Gardler wrote: > This evening I did a lightning talk for MIFOS a Micro-financing charity. It > was an internal only presentation for my employer, but in preparing it I > had excellent support from the MIFOS team.mI feel confident they could > provide us with an exce

Keynote suggestion: NIST Big Data Working Group

2014-01-29 Thread Suresh Marru
Hi All, I have solicited an abstract from Prof. Geoffrey Fox [1] at Indiana University for keynote ideas at ACNA 14. Here is an idea: - Topic: Implications of the NIST Big Data Working Group Apache Big Data Software Stack Over the last six months, the Big Data public working group http:/

Re: Require Financial Assistance box on CFP submissions page.

2014-01-29 Thread Melissa Warnkin
Hey Lewis, If you tick that box, is it pointing to LF's funding assistance page or TAC? It used to point to LF; however, AFAIK, they are not certain at this point whether or not they have funding available, so I advised them that that page should direct folks to TAC.  There is also a link to ou

Require Financial Assistance box on CFP submissions page.

2014-01-29 Thread Lewis John Mcgibbney
Hi dev@, I wonder, is the LF also providing travel funding opportunities for ApacheConNA2014? When you submit a speaker proposal you are asked to click some boxes at the bottom, one of which is whether you require financial assistance. I just wonder if these are filtering through to the Travel Assi

A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Kay Schenk
As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications will be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of reviews? There are a few submissions -- aside from some standard ASF presentations -- that are somewha

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Since this is my first time helping with the reviews, I'm also wondering what's the objective for us reviewers? Are we expected to stack-rank the proposal in our given areas or weight them somehow? Thanks, Roman. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > As I am quite new to this proc

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jan 29, 2014 12:53 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications will > be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due date for completion of reviews? As soon as possible. I dont have a be

Re: A couple of questions on ApacheCon, Denver reviews...

2014-01-29 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Jan 29, 2014 12:53 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: > > > > As I am quite new to this process, a few questions -- > > > > The closing date for submissions is Feb 1, and it seems notifications > will > > be sent out by Feb 14. So, what is the due dat