In a message of Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:43:43 +0100, Giovanni Bajo writes: >OTOH, we scheduled a total of 4/5 weeks for the whole CFP because 85% of >talks usually arrive in the last 3 days, so it looks like the common = >pattern is that people become aware of CFP at some point, take a brain = >note "I should propose something", and then when they start seeing = >tweets or mails saying "hurry up! CFP closes this week", they actually = >sit down and submit the proposal. Last year we had a 2-months CFP and we >decided it wasn't worth it.
Yes, this is what happens. And this year, I think the very week that most people actually decide to sit down and write something -- i.e 2 weeks before to 1 week before the deadline -- is PyCON US. So I think many people will not be reading the tweets or mails until after they are back from PyCON, settled down, recovered from jet lag -- and they will discover it is too late for them. >Sliding all deadlines by one week would be unfortunate; we are trying to >make the early bird period finish earlier compared to last year, and >there is a strict correlation (end of CPS community voting >schedule online =3D> end of early, the idea being that you can't close >the early before or too soon after the schedule is published, otherwise >it's not really an early bird but a "blind bird"). > >So, I would prefer to do that only if it ends up being an actual problem >(=3D too few submissions). Notice also that a fallback in case of few >poster submissions is to talk to authors submissions which are not >accepted during the community voting, and ask them if they want to do a >poster instead. >Giovanni Bajo :: ra...@develer.com >Develer S.r.l. :: http://www.develer.com I don't think there is much of a chance of there being too few submissions. I think there might be a problem with not having submissions in key areas, by people that others specially come to EP to listen to, and the like, because I think there is considerable overlap between 'better submissions' and 'I travelled to the US to give a PyCON talk'. Laura _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
