On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 27/12/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=50855951 >>>> >>> Nice changes, Andrea! >> > > We also need a 3-5 lines descriptions to appear at > https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ACNA2015ContentCommittee > I saw this request but was rather reluctant to expand it until we were sure we had enough to do a "track". > > I'm not sure we can actually "do" this part. I think having the topics >> will probably determine the best speakers. Hopefully, these speakers >> will submit proposals. >> > > We can do it in phases. As usual, we are a widely distributed project and > indeed it's very hard that all the most competent people for each topic are > physically in the same place. For some topics we will have the best people, > for some other topics we will have competent people who can still deliver a > good presentation, for some we may have nobody. and those should then be > removed. > > In any case, I would like to send out a message to our "announcements" >> and "dev" lists about the topics and the conference before Jan. 1 if >> there are no objections. >> > > The "dev" list is OK for a start (last time I sent a request for talk > proposals to the announce list, I got several funny but useless proposals). > So if we can start by finalizing the topics, then ask here if we have > volunteers for each topic, we can start putting some names. Maybe with the proposed/recommended topics, "useless" proposals will be minimized? At any rate, the real crux of the matter is what get's submitted through the CFP. I still feel the "announcements" list would be valuable. Maybe we can slate the announcement for tomorrow, the 29th, with today for final changes to the proposals. Shall we add a draft announcement section to the proposals page? My feeling is we should emphasize that, even though this is being held in North America, some travel assistance IS available. And, I think it might be worth our while to try to engage graduate level students in CSCI or Software Engineering to present ideas on improvement to OpenOffice -- the futures area? > > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out." -- Lou Reed
