YAPC::Europe::2004

Speaker notification...almost.

We had planned that we would have chosen the talks by now, and notified the speakers. But that didn't happen: we've had a few minor problems.

One of those problems was that we got quite a few proposals that looked interesting but didn't contain enough detail to allow our content manager to decide. He (the content manager) has contacted those authors and is waiting for some more information.

The other possible problem seems to be that some people suggested talks on the wiki but then didn't submit a proposal! I was looking forward to hearing some of those talks, so I wanted to know why they weren't on the list.

There could be many reasons why these talks were not proposed, including: the author may have changed his mind; the author may not have seen the call for papers; the author might think his talk was unpopular because it didn't generate discussion on the wiki. I can't do much about the first case, but I can help with the other two. I'll start with some encouragement: there was a big lack of discussion on the wiki; most talk suggestions didn't receive any comments, so don't let that prevent you from trying.

And now, with a purely selfish motive to see some of the talks I want, I'm going to reopen the call for papers for a fortnight so that those people who put suggestions on the wiki can turn those into proposals and email them to us.

If that doesn't work, I might have to send the boys round.