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EmacsConf 2023? Re: Seeking feedback: Tentative timeline for EmacsConf 2
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Sacha Chua |
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EmacsConf 2023? Re: Seeking feedback: Tentative timeline for EmacsConf 2022 |
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Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:06:23 -0400 |
Hello, all!
How do y'all feel about another EmacsConf this year, maybe copying and
pasting much of last year's setup? This was the tentative schedule last
time around.
Sacha
Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
> Several EmacsConf organizers recently met to discuss and draft a
> timeline for the upcoming EmacsConf 2022, which we are sharing below.
> Please have a look at this proposed tentative timeline for the months
> leading up to the conference, as well as the conference event itself,
> and let us know whether or not the proposed dates look good to you,
> or if you anticipate any issues with any of the dates or with the
> proposed timeline overall.
>
> CFP opens June 13, 2022
> CFP closes August 31, 2022
> Speaker notifications September 30, 2022
> Schedule published October 31, 2022
> EmacsConf 2022! December 3 and 4, 2022
>
> And here are some of the feedback and questions raised about the
> proposed timeline during the recent organizers meeting, in case
> you would like to chime in about them as well and/or share your
> own thoughts on them:
>
> - The Call for Participation falls largely in summer time in the
> Northern Hemisphere, when people may be out and about and not have
> much time to dedicate to putting together and submitting proposals
> for EmacsConf.
>
> Suggested counter-arguments and solutions:
>
> 1. the proposed CFP duration is long enough (~2.5 months) to help
> accommodate this, by giving a reasonably large time frame for
> writing and submitting proposals;
>
> 2. as we have done in the recent years, we could extend the CFP
> by pushing the CFP closure date back by one week or two weeks,
> to help further accommodate people interested in submitting a
> proposal; and
>
> 3. we may be able to squeeze in last-minute proposal submissions in
> lightning talk prerecording format, that we may be able to add to
> the schedule as fillers in between other talks where possible.
> This could for instance be useful for inclusion of quick talks
> about new package releases or other breaking news that might
> happen after the CFP closing and closer to the conference event.
>
> - We are allocating more time after the CFP closes, to help give the
> organizers more time to carry out the pre-conference tasks such as
> preparing a schedule that works for as many speakers as possible,
> and captioning and re-encoding the submitted prerecorded videos to
> fit our criteria (e.g. use free software-friendly codecs).
>
> There was a concern/question as to whether this extended time
> between the closure of the CFP and the conference days might lead
> to a larger number of talks being shared by speakers elsewhere
> in advance of the event, thus lowering the surprise/newness factor,
> in a way.
>
> Suggested counter-argument: it's cool if people share their talk
> elsewhere (such as their site or blog) before the conference,
> especially if they give a shout out to the conference, helping to
> spread the word about it and potentially bring more people into the
> conference and our community who may have otherwise not heard of it.
>
> Thanks, and looking forward to hearing from you!
>
> --
> https://kelar.org/~bandali
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