On 15 July 2014 10:30, Rob Vesse <rve...@dotnetrdf.org> wrote: > Comments inline: > > On 15/07/2014 07:32, "Sergio Fernández" <wik...@apache.org> wrote: > > >Hi Rich, > > > >On 14/07/14 17:19, Rich Bowen wrote: > >> Hey, Linked Data folks, I need some last minute help. > >> > >> http://tm3.org/aceu2014tracks - see Linked Data tab > >> > >> There are 9 talks marked Accept, 4 talks marked Average. > > > >Personally I'm fine with the result of the evaluation, accepting those > >9. Maybe putting in the proposal "Enterprise Integration Patterns in > >Apache Stanbol", because I personally know there is much more stuff than > >what the proposal describes. Besides we already talked with one of the > >guys with two talks (one accepted, one rejected) to maybe merge both > >proposals into one talk. > > > >So that would mean 10 talks, booking 2 slots for the panel discussions, > >if you still think is a good idea (read bellow). > > > >What the decisions has to be taken? Because I think Andy is on vacations > >for some days. > > > >> I can run 12 talks, or I can run 6 talks, but I need your help selecting > >> which ones. I had some questions out to Sergio on Friday, but haven't > >> heard back, and any help here would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Sorry, I missed that email. > > > >Well, without knowing the general layout, we sketched a full day track > >http://s.apache.org/4P5 with 9 slots (mixing short and long ones), plus > >a final discussion panel. > > A track is 6 talks within a day, please keep this format otherwise it will not fit with breaks, people changing session etc.
rgds jan I. > This looks reasonable assuming some talks are happy to work within the > shortened slots. > > The only problem I have is whether this prevents people with a passing > interest from attending talks easily because they will potentially not > line up nicely with the rest of the schedule and thus may reduce the > potential attendees for some talks. And therefore you miss out on the key > benefit of ApacheCon of attracting attendees with a wider range of > backgrounds and gaining new participants from outside the wider community. > > If we want to align the schedule with the rest of the conference then we > need to consider cutting three talks > > Therefore I would suggest the following possible alterations (numbers > refer to rows in the spreadsheet as of now): > > - Combine Talks 6 & 8 (both which are covering different aspects of the > same project) > - Combine Talks 2 & 3 (since talk 3 describes a project that currently is > only used in the project described in talk 2) > > This would give the following talks: > > - Lizard - Clustering a RDF Store + Engineering RDF data formats for > system tasks > - Quadrupling your Elephants - RDF and the Hadoop Ecosystem > - Open Annotation support for Apache Stanbol > - Managed Linked Media with Apache Marmotta + Apache Marmotta, an Open > Platform for Linked Data > - Multi Language Content Discovery Through Entity Driven Search > - Towards a Commons RDF library (Panel Discussion) > > That gives you just 6 sessions allowing for scheduling a standard 6 > session track over a single day > > Sergio - Would you and Thomas be willing to combine your talks (or does > Thomas's talk subsume yours anyway?) > > Andy - Would you be willing to combine your talks? > > > > >How would be the final slots design? > > > >> Also, there was a mention of a Linked Data social even, to which I > >>asked: > >> > >> I was also wondering about your listed Social Event. Do you have a > >> sponsor that would cover drinks/food at such an event? Were you thinking > >> an informal "meet at a pub" kind of event, or a sponsored party? Is this > >> something that would be open to all attendees, or would it be a more > >> private thing? What did you have in mind? > > > >It is also particularly interesting for us to gather together with other > >data-intensive projects to discuss the intersection of their approaches > >with Linked Data / Semantic Web technologies. There are some projects > >(good represented by talks) quite related with other Apache projects > >(Hadoop, Solr, Camel, ManifoldCF, etc). > > +1 It would be good if we could attract related projects particularly > communities like Hadoop where we are already looking to provide APIs that > bridge the gap between the two worlds > > > > >Actually we didn't think so much about it... We do not have sponsor, and > >wewere thinking about something much informal and open to everybody. So, > >if it is not feasible to allocate it, I think we can manage to gather > >together the community with the panel discussion, and try to meet for a > >beer somewhere. Although I'd prefer to await for Andy to decide > >something about that. > > Any idea what the approximate cost of such a sponsored event would be? > > I may be able to at least enquire about possible sponsorship from my > company and having a figure makes life much easier in this regard though I > can't promise that I'll be able to produce anything. > > Rob > > > > >Thanks so much for all your support on this, Rich. > > > >Cheers, > > > >-- > >Sergio Fernández > >Partner Technology Manager > >Redlink GmbH > >m: +43 660 2747 925 > >e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co > >w: http://redlink.co > > > > >
