On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > On 02/19/2014 03:12 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: >> Hi Rich et al, >> >> As we briefly discussed on IRC, I see this talk[1] on Thrift use case from >> Airavata got lost in Big Data track. I reached out to thrift PMC for >> alternative thrift talks and Jake Farrell volunteered to co-presnet if this >> RESTless talk is selected (making it more general with Airavata as one of >> the use case). Since there is vacant slot in track 10 on day 1, can we have >> it there? It seems to be reviewed by 7 reviewers with decent rating. > > I need to start by giving my canned response that I'm giving to everyone: > > We had 250 talk submissions. We had 162 talks, which we then expanded to 168 > to fit in yet more content. Even then, we had to eliminate 80 talks, many > (most) of which were worthy of running if we had had more space. > > I'm very reluctant to open the floor to lobbying for individual talks, > because that way lies madness, hurt feelings, and resentment. > > Having said that, you mention that we have an open slot. > > We expanded Monday into a tenth track to accommodate the Fast Feather Track. > We put two additional talks there because 1) the speakers were already going > to be at the conference and, 2) because of my miscommunication with Angela we > sent acceptance notices to them when they were already marked as rejected. > > We are already receiving cancel notices from folks whose plans have changed > since the CFP and are not able to attend, and if we don't need the tenth > room, we will slim back down to 9. > > So, with that context, I'll say that I'm willing to have this conversation on > this list, but I wanted to be completely up front about my extreme reluctance > and the reasons for it. > > Discuss amongst yourselves.
With no further comments on this thread, any objections to schedule this talk? Suresh > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
