FUDCon Pune talk submission reviews delayed

[Amit Shah]

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.


		Amit
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:42:04PM +0530, Amit Shah 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.
>  
>  
>  		Amit 
I updated the Trac milestone accordingly.

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[Amit Shah]

On (Thu) 02 Apr 2015 [16:31:47], Paul W. Frields wrote:
>  On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 06:42:04PM +0530, Amit Shah 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.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 		Amit
>  
>  I updated the Trac milestone accordingly. 
Thanks, Paul!

		Amit
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On 2 April 2015 at 18:42, Amit Shah <amitshah(a)gmx.net&gt; 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.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute

[Amit Shah]

On 3 April 2015 10:34:15 am IST, "pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com"
<pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> On 2 April 2015 at 18:42, Amit Shah <amitshah(a)gmx.net&gt; 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.

For non-Fedora or new contributors we will decide on their requests on merit as well as
available budget in addition to talk submissions.
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On 3 April 2015 at 12:12, Amit Shah <amitshah(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 3 April 2015 10:34:15 am IST, &quot;pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&quot; <
>  pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  >On 2 April 2015 at 18:42, Amit Shah <amitshah(a)gmx.net&gt; 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

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 3 April 2015 at 13:26, pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Its good to get list of these people soon for better clarity. 
For cases where we really want to know if a speaker's talk was
selected or not before deciding on sponsorship, we have deferred
decision till the deadline for requesting sponsorship, so the question
of clarity does not arise IMO.  Also, the deadline for asking for
sponsorship is 30th April and the speaker list will (hopefully) be out
much before that.

Siddhesh
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