Andreas Schuldei dijo [Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:04:45AM +0100]: > could someone please make the BoF proposal periode go on? we can > accept bofs until the last minute. they might not be scheduled > officially but they can be announced and organized manually at > the location. Someone could, and someone just has :) Now... I have a question on this, which maybe I should have brought up earlierr, given that last year it was also like this: We should have mentioned this in the CfP. Last year, the only real difference (for me) between the talks that went through the academic committee and were approved and those which were rejected and downgraded to BoFs was the inclusion of a paper in the proceedings, instead of just the abstract. BoFs requested in anticipation (i.e., not the glasshouse ones) were scheduled and treated just as normal talks - This makes it a bit unfair towards people who had to submit full papers, and we are not even mentioning that in our CfP. Even more, we have 9 people who have submitted BoF sessions, maybe expecting to enter the official selection contest and be scheduled according to their proposal's merit - They will be included with all the rest of the chaff anyway. Same thing goes for the other request you made regarding to the scheduling: It's unfair, IMHO, to open up a new participation form after people have thought hard on whether to present a talk, a workshop, a round-table or a BoF - "You mean there is also a combined one? How come I wasn't told of before?!" I suggest that we treat the single case you mention of the person requesting a presentation and later a Bof-like session as a specific, not officially scheduled case. Lets just schedule the presentation, and leave the second session as one of the doubly-informal BoFs we had last year in the glass room. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.org - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5623-0154 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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