Re: [Debconf-team] Draft of the "Call for Proposals"
Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> writes:
> On 03/04/2015 01:43 PM, Michael Banck wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 03:21:02PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>>> Second, do you see any way to move the deadline earlier, e.g. end of
>>> April?
>>>
>>> Not only would this help with press releases and attract attention.
>>> It also helps people to know a vague schedule before registering.
>>> Not all of us can just go to DebConf for its entire duration without
>>> knowing what will be on offer when.
>>
>> Last year we accepted quite a few talks early, and I think we should do
>> this again. So I think we should also mention this in the CfP, like "we
>> plain to accept a first round talks by April 15th" or whatever date we
>> come up with. Depending on how many submissions we get, we could even do
>> a second round, filling up 50-70% of the slots.
>
A first round of talks accepted by April 15th would be help the
bursaries process. It's not a blocker if we don't have that data, but it
would be nice.
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