I was looking at the 2009 program and I also took a look at the proposal form. It looks to me like they are just looking for proposals for single sessions, not for tracks. The "tracks" or topic areas seem to be fixed on the proposal form. Or am I looking at the wrong site??
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010/public/cfp/92 It looks like the presentation options are: 40 minute presentation 40 minute panel 40 minute group discussion 3 hour tutorial (which are held on the first 2 days of the convention) To submit a proposal, you would need * Title * Description 400 characters * Topics (from a preset list of checkboxes, none of which are "education" -- the closest of which seems to be "community") * Abstract (no apparent character limit, but pretty short) * Other information (that you choose to provide) * List of speakers, each speaker must be added individually It seems like a pretty easy process to submit a proposal. You don't need to write a lot. One idea: A "birds-of-a-feather" group discussion on "FOSS in (Higher?) Education". We would list some of the people on this list as participants, give everyone who attends, including the organizers, a couple of minutes to describe their project or interests and spend the remaining time (40 minutes) talking about how to get follow up. -- ralph
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