[Foss4g2009] Draft of Call for Abstracts

[Mark Leslie]

After the extension of the call for workshops, I got two statements of 
intent for a 14 submissions (really one statement of intent and one 
request for advice/review).  I expect that few people are going to 
bother stating for the record that their going to submit an abstract 
until they're ready to submit an abstract, and they aren't going to be 
the people we need to chase.  It's something we can throw in, "if you 
have questions, comments or to state your intention to submit" or 
something like that, but I don't think it gains us anything in the way 
of indicators.  We should have a single point of contact to point them 
to though.

I believe we currently have an 'expression of interests' signup on the 
web site.  Don't know what happens with signups though.  I haven't 
receive anything through that channel AFAIK.

--
Mark


Cameron Shorter wrote:
> One more thing.
> This time around, lets try and get people to notify us by email 
> immediately if they are considering presenting.
> That should give us an early indication about the number of 
> presentations to expect, and then give us a list of people to chase when 
> they have forgotten to submit.
> 
> We should do the same with delegates attending. (FOSS4G 2006 did 
> something like that). Can we set that up with our current website software?
>