[fedora-india] FUDCon Pune talk submission reviews delayed

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 3 April 2015 at 12:12, Amit Shah <amitshah at gmx.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 3 April 2015 10:34:15 am IST, "pravin.d.s at gmail.com" <
> pravin.d.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On 2 April 2015 at 18:42, Amit Shah <amitshah at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> Just a note to let you all know that we've been reviewing talk and
> >> workshop submissions for FUDCon Pune this past week, but won't be
> >able
> >> to finish deciding on the accepted talk list till a couple weeks
> >> more.  We had earlier set the deadline for 3 Apr, we now are revising
> >> to 15 Apr.
> >>
> >> There have been a lot of submissions, and scheduling time + holidays
> >> hampered us meeting to decide on the submissions.
> >>
> >> Also, we're asking a few speakers for updating / clarifying their
> >talk
> >> abstracts, so that adds to the delay too.
> >>
> >> Nothing is blocking on this activity, though, and this delay isn't
> >> impacting the final schedule, so we're safe for now.
> >>
> >
> >I think Travel sponsorship is blocking on this activity. Good to get
> >exact
> >number of speaker ASAP. It will give clear picture of how many people
> >we
> >need to sponsor.
>
> Not really, we've decoupled those two by having barcamp sessions. Also
> we're going to prefer Fedora contributors irrespective of talk sessions
> being accepted.
>

IMHO Fedora contributors whose talks are accepted should get hire priority
than only Fedora contributors interested in attending conference.


>
> For non-Fedora or new contributors we will decide on their requests on
> merit as well as available budget in addition to talk submissions.
>

Its good to get list of these people soon for better clarity.


Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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