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Re: EmacsConf 2023? Re: Seeking feedback: Tentative timeline for EmacsCo
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Re: EmacsConf 2023? Re: Seeking feedback: Tentative timeline for EmacsConf 2022 |
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Mon, 5 Jun 2023 09:43:14 +0900 |
Wow, it's already this time of the year :-)
I fall in the group "summer vacation but also super busy with work at the same
time", but all the counter-arguments also work against that, so I'm fine with
the schedule.
Jean-Christophe
> On Jun 5, 2023, at 9:06, Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> wrote:
>
> 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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