Rich,
ARGH, I missed that, only saw the draft.
Thanks a bunch,
Hadrian
On 02/19/2015 10:35 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
You have already been invited to the document. Look at your
drive.google.com list of docs for something matching 'MASTER'
On 02/19/2015 10:17 AM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote:
Rich, how can I get access to the list of submitted talks?
Hadrian
On 02/19/2015 09:05 AM, Rich Bowen wrote:
For those not involved in the process so far, I appreciate your
patience, and your suffering in the dark. Making the schedule public
too early caused significant logistical problems last two times
(people thinking they knew things that they didn't know, and making
travel plans accordingly), and we want to avoid that nightmare this
time around.
For those involved in the process so far:
It looks like we're done with the ApacheCon schedule. Sort of. We've
got 7 tracks, three days, which I think is probably just the right
volume.
Please look at the DRAFT schedule, and comment in this thread. I, for
one, think we have a kickin' schedule.
Problems that I think still need solving:
* We have an empty spot in the community track. Given that community
is what we *do*, it seems that we could come up with 6 community talks
to schedule, and have a few fallbacks. If folks could look through the
not-yet-accepted list with me and see what you can find, that would be
awesome.
* We have 16 open slots. We don't need to fill all of them - we need
to leave 6 or 7 slots open for vendor-sponsored talks (Don't worry,
these will NOT be product pitches) which will show up over the coming
weeks. (LF's problem, not ours.) But I think we can probably put
together a few half-day tracks if we put our minds to it. We have an
entire day/track on Wednesday, if someone still thinks that they can
put together a complete track (6 talks).
* We need more wait-listed talks. We currently have 6 waitlisted
talks, and I'm probably going to take several of those right now to
fill in some empties.
* We have the problem that's not a problem, which is that we had 239
submissions, and have only accepted 115 talks - less than half. So
we'll get a LOT of "why wasn't my talk accepted" emails, and I never
have very good answers to that, because the answer really is, this
time, too much content, too little space. But the questions will come,
and that's a very unsatisfying answer to people that have put time and
effort into crafting talk abstracts.
If you would like to help with any of these things, please get in
touch with me. Or, just step up and claim it and do it.
Note that I will be flying for much of today, and at a conference
Friday-Sunday, so if I'm not responsive, please ping Jan Iversen, who
can also help you out with this - although apparently I can't make him
Owner of the Google Doc, so actually sharing the doc with you will be
delayed, unless you respond in the next 3 hours.
