Buy now I've reviewed most of the talks submitted in the areas I'm familiar with (mostly Hadoop ecosystem). Beyond the feedback I left in the system two trends emerged: 1. there are a lot of different talks submitted around Hadoop's YARN 2. there are a lot of different talks submitted around Apache Hive
Both technologies are extremely important and useful, but I'm not sure with the slot pressure the way it is we can accommodate all of them. Question: is there any way of reaching back to the authors of these submissions and asking them to do a bit of folding/refactoring? After all, there's always a chance to co-present (which may even be better from a community building/bonding perspective). Thanks, Roman. On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > With the CFP closed (officially ... it appears that there are still talks > coming in ... geez) we have 250+ talk proposals, including: > > 7 lightning talks > 15 tutorials > 1 mini-summit (ie, a whole track managed by itself) > 3 labs (I don't know what labs are. Do you think they meant tutorials?) > > Which leaves us with approx 226 talks to slot into approx 165 actual > sessions. So we have to identify 60 talks that we're not going to run, or > which can be fallback sessions, ie, a speaker who is already scheduled, who > has a talk that they're willing to give on an as-needed basis. In the past > we've needed anywhere from zero to 4 fallbacks per day. > > So, if you're on the reviewer list, get started. > > I know that the CFP system isn't ideal, so if you have comments you'd like > to make about it, please keep track of them so that we can get them to the > LF folks for next time. I know I have some of my own already. > > And if you're the IRC type, come hang out on #apachecon on Freenode, where > we've been discussing things on and off. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
