On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:23:29PM -0500, Luis Ibanez wrote: > My understanding is that the process of submitting > proposals to OSCON is very informal, but I have > no previous experience with it. > > Can anyone in the list provide some advice ?
I asked an OSCON contact (Sharon Cordesse), and she pointed me to: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/92 I followed through to the proposal link from there, and I see how it could be used to propose a new track, by choosing 'Other' under the 'Topics', then filling in details in the 'Additional Notes' field. I'm not fully satisfied with that, but let's start there. I can follow up with Sharon to see if there is someone specifically we can talk with for the proposal. However, I followed a link for more contacts: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010/public/content/contact ... and it has this: Speaker/Program Ideas Have a suggestion for a speaker or topic at OSCON? [email protected] How about this as a way to proceed? 1. Put together our proposal for an education track 2. Specify at least 50% of the speakers we would recommend to fill the track; it's unclear to me who would decide the speakers and what it takes to run a proposed track. So, we want to indicate in our proposal something like, "We are prepared to fill all the speaker slots, already have these recognizable names and subjects, but we didn't want to promise away all the slots without knowing who gets to make that choice." 3. Use the paper submission process to enter the proposal, using the 'Additional Notes' method. 4. Simultaneously, email [email protected] with a pointer at the proposal and an invitation to talk with some of us about the idea soonest. One challenge is, if OSCON expects to fill the track to any degree, it needs to get on their Topics list yesterday. Perhaps we want to float the idea by oscon-info immediately, letting them know where we stand and what we are doing, etc.? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg: AD0E0C41
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