On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:50, Mary Gardiner wrote: > There's an increasingly large number of good talks being rejected from > the linux.conf.au conference.
Hi Mary, The organisers noticed this and put on another stream. But if anyone has any good ideas for linux.conf.au 2005 then make them known as I suspect the problem is only going to get worse. Having more than four streams makes little sense and making a six-day conference longer is also problematic. We also had to reject some possibly-good presentations because people wrote poor summaries for the Call for Papers. "I wrote Bogotron" doesn't tell us much about the *presentation*, even if Bogotron is a well-known package. When we do the paper evaluation all we have to go on is people's CFP response, our joint memories of people's effectiveness at presenting, and whatever material is on the web. So people wanting to present at a future LCA would help us (and if the presentation is good, themselves) by presenting the material beforehand, such as to a user group. That may not be true of people wanting to speak at other conferences (some demand only unseen material). > If one of those talks was yours, please consider giving it at SLUG. > (Accepted speakers might also like to give a talk if they think it's > SLUG appropriate.) Unlike most conferences, LCA2004 deliberately leaves the copyright with the presenter so that people can re-present their material to people that couldn't make it to LCA. Cheers, Glen One of the overworked organisers of linux.conf.au 2004. http://www.linux.conf.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
