On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Pierre Smits wrote:
At the moment only 1 paper (on the pm and tm session) has been submitted, but over the coming days till the end of CfP the rest of the papers are expected to be submitted. I have stressed this to the other participants.
We'll need enough good sessions to fill the track, including an option for what to do if someone drops out. (That backup could either be another talk, or a pre-agreed stand-in speaker for an existing talk)
We expect that attendance is going te be less than 100 per session, but who knows for sure.... So we could do with one of the smaller rooms. One session participant said that he was expecting some clients to attend. That's good news.
One thing we're going to be asking all track chairs for soon, which you could maybe get started on, is more information on the track for potential attendees. The current info on the tracks page is a good start, but needs expanding, as on the whole the current level of detail is only suitable for people already involved in the projects.
The lucene track have volunteered to produce the expanded descriptions first (they have some marketing volunteers to help), and we'll then use that to help guide the other tracks on what's needed. In the mean time, if you want to expand your track description, to help explain to people why they should come, that'd be a great start!
Thanks Nick
