On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Joe Brockmeier <jzb@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/15/2016 11:28 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> Does anyone object to publicizing March 14 as a starter deadline for
>> CFP?
>
> "Starter deadline"?
>
> That gives us ~1 month. I'm OK with that if we really hit the
> announcements hard.

For an event that happens in August, I don't see why we'd close CFP
that early.  It doesn't take 4 months to bring together a schedule
from submitted talks.

Even if we're optimizing for marketing lead time (e.g. "Look at the
awesome schedule!") to bring in other people, we'd really only need it
set about 2 months before the event.  That puts my back of the napkin
deadline at the end of May.

I'm +1 with jwb here.

I think closing the CFP early leads to 'stale' titles. Last year I could tell that some of the titles for Flock talks were dated, and didn't reflect the content that was actually being presented. Presenters are usually good about updating the content, even if the title is not reflecting the latest state of the topic.

I'm still ok with closing the CFP early if we need to, or if organizers think it makes sense. If we are just using the early deadline as a way to get more people to submit earlier, then I suggest that we suggest that earlier submissions get 'extra credit/deference' of some kind?

Hope This Helps,
--RemyD.
 

josh
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