On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 06/29/2015 11:28 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: >> >> Maybe it has to do with how the event is marketed each time? We (and the >> LF) should have some statistics (graphs? Trend lines?) on past >> registrations. Or don't we measure such? For sure, when a kind of >> 'pressure' is marketed, the interested parties seem to register their >> talk. >> But it might also be that potentials are looking at each other in order to >> get a grasp of who does what. > > > Every event, on any topic, of any size, that I have ever been affiliated > with, has had this same situation. No matter what you do, half the papers > will be submitted in the last week of the CFP. Nobody likes it, but it's > reality.
Exactly! But it makes me curious: has anybody ever tried to "gamify" successfully against this sad trend? Thanks, Roman. P.S. Totally a tangent -- I know ;-)
