On 19 February 2015 at 16:49, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Traditionally we had an integration track at ApacheCon. I volunteered to > run it this year, but there was virtually no answer from the PMCs. > I see however that there are more than enough proposals to put together a 6 > talks integration track for Wed. If I could get a second, I'll get on it > and have it done probably before the end of the day. > Rich is boarding his plane now, but I am fine with such a track...but please coordinate the number of free spaces with Ross, so we avoid double bookings. rgds jan i > > Cheers > Hadrian > > > > > On 02/19/2015 10:29 AM, jan i wrote: > >> On 19 February 2015 at 15:05, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >> >> For those not involved in the process so far, I appreciate your patience, >>> and your suffering in the dark. Making the schedule public too early >>> caused >>> significant logistical problems last two times (people thinking they knew >>> things that they didn't know, and making travel plans accordingly), and >>> we >>> want to avoid that nightmare this time around. >>> >>> For those involved in the process so far: >>> >>> It looks like we're done with the ApacheCon schedule. Sort of. We've got >>> 7 >>> tracks, three days, which I think is probably just the right volume. >>> >>> Please look at the DRAFT schedule, and comment in this thread. I, for >>> one, >>> think we have a kickin' schedule. >>> >>> Problems that I think still need solving: >>> >>> * We have an empty spot in the community track. Given that community is >>> what we *do*, it seems that we could come up with 6 community talks to >>> schedule, and have a few fallbacks. If folks could look through the >>> not-yet-accepted list with me and see what you can find, that would be >>> awesome. >>> >>> I did not find what I thought was a really strong community talk. >> >> * We have 16 open slots. We don't need to fill all of them - we need to >>> leave 6 or 7 slots open for vendor-sponsored talks (Don't worry, these >>> will >>> NOT be product pitches) which will show up over the coming weeks. (LF's >>> problem, not ours.) But I think we can probably put together a few >>> half-day >>> tracks if we put our minds to it. We have an entire day/track on >>> Wednesday, >>> if someone still thinks that they can put together a complete track (6 >>> talks). >>> >>> * We need more wait-listed talks. We currently have 6 waitlisted talks, >>> and I'm probably going to take several of those right now to fill in some >>> empties. >>> >>> I am now on my second iteration, to mark talks as wait-listed. The >> definition is pretty simple, it need to be an unscheduled talk (of course) >> and the speaker must have an accepted talk. >> >> >> * We have the problem that's not a problem, which is that we had 239 >>> submissions, and have only accepted 115 talks - less than half. So we'll >>> get a LOT of "why wasn't my talk accepted" emails, and I never have very >>> good answers to that, because the answer really is, this time, too much >>> content, too little space. But the questions will come, and that's a very >>> unsatisfying answer to people that have put time and effort into crafting >>> talk abstracts. >>> >>> This is really a good argument for pushing more out to the PMCs and have >> track chairs, who start before CFP officially opens, so they can help >> create the right talks. >> >> I take this as a lesson learned. To be fair the track-chair idea worked >> better than I thought, and next time we know to push harder for that. >> >> >> >>> If you would like to help with any of these things, please get in touch >>> with me. Or, just step up and claim it and do it. >>> >>> Note that I will be flying for much of today, and at a conference >>> Friday-Sunday, so if I'm not responsive, please ping Jan Iversen, who can >>> also help you out with this - although apparently I can't make him Owner >>> of >>> the Google Doc, so actually sharing the doc with you will be delayed, >>> unless you respond in the next 3 hours. >>> >>> thats me :-) >> >> I will be available the next couple of days, and try also to be on IRC as >> much as possible....sadly enough sharing is left to Rich. >> >> rgds >> jan i >> >> >> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >>> >>> >
