I confirm this impression. There is a similar glut of Cordova talks. In the Cordova talks, however, many of the submissions are from the same few people and the talks are very, very similar.
A smaller set of near duplicates occurs in Solr where a number of speakers have volunteered a "State of Lucene (or Solr or SolrCloud)" without providing any further ideas about content or any other way to distinguish the proposals. A deduping round would be very helpful. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Roman Shaposhnik <r...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > > >
