[Foss4g2011] Re: [Foss4g2011-private] Re: Bunch of procrastinators :)

[Peter Batty]

So we made it to almost 300 abstracts in the end, some more stats at
http://bit.ly/ejoKx9. Submissions from 35 countries, half the total from the
US and Canada and half from the rest of the world which was nice balance I
thought!

Re introductory material, as Tyler said we are planning a day before the
main conference in parallel with the workshops as an intro session and hope
to attract a good number of newcomers to FOSS. Not sure I agree with the Joe
and Adena's views of the state of FOSS here though, I think your perception
may just depend on the circles you move in! But certainly think there is a
big potential audience for introductory material so we will make sure we
provide that, as well as lots more heavyweight content too, of course.

Re the community voting, we do plan to do that again (as was done last year
with a similar number of abstracts). I agree there are pros and cons to
this, will see how it works this year and I think it's worth more discussion
about whether to continue it next year. As in previous years, the results
will be a guideline to the committee, they will have scope to make
adjustments to get a good spread of topics / products etc.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell at osgeo.org>wrote:

>
> On 2011-04-18, at 3:12 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> > Therefore it might be helpful to actively design track that focuses on
> the needs of this clientele.
>
> There's a whole day already dedicated :)
>
> http://2011.foss4g.org/intro-details/
>
> But I bet there will end up being more in the main program
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