[FOSS4G-Oceania] Motion: shift presentation deadline by 4 days

[Trisha Moriarty]

+1 to shift the deadline
+1 to shortening vote period.

Trish

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:17 PM Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 to shift the deadline
> +1 to announce on the day because it's so common that presentation
> deadlines are extended
> +1 to shorten to 10 days .. we'll need to put a final program together,
> and we shouldn't eat into that time - 10 days is plenty
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 8:57 PM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 to the deadline shift, no preference about how to announce it. And
>> again, well spotted!
>>
>> I think we could still keep 14 days for review, we’re not pushing for
>> early bird deadlines anymore.
>>
>> -0 for me the proposal to shorten community review.
>>
>>
>> On 30 July 2018 at 18:20, Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Good insight John.
>>>
>>> I'm all for the shift in deadline. No preference on whether we announce
>>> it now or on the day.
>>>
>>> On 30 July 2018 at 18:06, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can we call it an extension,  announced just on the day,  so to not
>>>> have to make another extension?  People always count on that :)
>>>> M.
>>>>
>>>> On 30 Jul. 2018 5:59 pm, Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> This sounds sensible to me! Good spot!
>>>>
>>>> On Mon., 30 Jul. 2018, 17:42 John Bryant, <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I realised a couple of days ago that this year's global FOSS4G 2018
>>>>> <https://2018.foss4g.org> ends on 31 August, followed by a couple of
>>>>> days of code sprints & community events. Our presentation submission
>>>>> deadline (not the workshop deadline, which is tomorrow) is on 31 Aug.
>>>>>
>>>>> It occurred to me that this isn't quite ideal for a couple of reasons.
>>>>> First, some potential presenters from our region may be in attendance at
>>>>> FOSS4G, and our deadline comes at a time when they'll be busy & distracted.
>>>>> Second, there will be great content coming out of FOSS4G to inspire
>>>>> potential presenters, and it would be nice to take advantage of this
>>>>> inspiration.
>>>>>
>>>>> *So, I propose:*
>>>>>
>>>>>    - *We shift our presentation deadline from 31 Aug (Fri) to 4 Sep
>>>>>    (Tues)*
>>>>>    - *We begin our community vote on 5 Sep instead of 1 Sep,
>>>>>    compressing the voting period from 14 days to 10 days*
>>>>>
>>>>> This will also give people the advantage of having a weekend right
>>>>> before the deadline to work on submissions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
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