On 08.08.2014 14:59, Rich Bowen wrote: > As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and > registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that > real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work > things, after being out of the office for two weeks, I'm starting back > on some of the ApacheCon related tasks. > > Here's how you can help. > > * Look at the schedule at http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/grid/ > looking for places where someone is speaking twice at once, or where > there's an obvious conflict between two talks (ie, the same topic at > the same time). > > * See if a speaker is giving two (or more) talks back to back. > > * See if the talk ordering in a particular track doesn't make any > sense, or, at least, could be improved. > > * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear, > not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos, > grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there > placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing. > > * If you are a speaker, blog about your presentations, telling people > why they should be there. Tweet about it. G+, Facebook, LinkedIn, > MySpace, whatever you have to do. Get the word out. YOU are the most > effective way to get people to the conference. Tell your projects' dev > and user lists, forums, NNTP groups and local meetup lists. Help us > wish we had a bigger venue. > > If you encounter any of this stuff, email me, or respond to this > thread, so that we can get it fixed.
Can I make a typographical complaint, too? There are dashes (-) before the speaker names, which should be either m-dashes (— —) or n-dashes (– –). Some project names are not written correctly, at a glance I found OFBiz: It's sometimes written "Ofbiz", and sometimes "Apache-OFBiz", both of which are wrong; the correct spelling is "Apache OFBiz" or just "OFBiz". "From Squid To Happines In 42 Easy Step" is missing a plural form in the last word. Capitalization of the session titles is still not consistent. That's all for a 10-second glance :) -- Brane
