[Foss4g2013] Presentations - How long abstracts?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

+1 - and indeed that has also been discussed many, many times within the FOSS4G conference committees.

On 12 apr. 2013, at 15:07, Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:

> Someone suggested doing the same as OSM, having the same conference registration system every year.
> 
> I'm very much in favour of this.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
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> On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I also found it kind of strange to have a once sentence description with
>> 100 *words*.
>> 
>> I just kept mine to one sentence and a short abstract (not the maximum
>> length) at the bottom.
>> 
>> We'll see how others did it :)
>> 
>> For the next year I'd also like to propose to have a way to edit your
>> submission even if you've submitted it already.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>  Volker
>> 
>> On 04/12/2013 02:59 PM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>>> Hi Barry,
>>> 
>>> Can you tell us if a long abstract is really required? Our presentations
>>> are summarized in 100 words and I'm not that keen to start writing lots
>>> of words for the sake of it :-) 
>>> 
>>> (That brings me to the suggestion for the conference guidelines to
>>> always request the same details for presentations, workshops et cetera
>>> in consecutive conferences)
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Jeroen
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