Andrew Findlay wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:00:36PM +0100, Michael Ströder wrote: How about this:
Submission Deadline: 28th June Author Notification: 10th July Publish draft programme: 3rd August
Publish draft programme a bit earlier. The last times working out the programme after reviewing submissions did not take so long.
I would probably expect to start hitting mailing lists and trade press at the start of September
Ok.
(no point in letting announcements sink in a pile of other stuff while people are on holiday).
In Germany the summer holidays are spread across the federal states in the period until mid of September. So there's not a really good date when to begin. => don't be too late with conference PR
I'm not sure whether 5 min talks makes sense. IMHO they don't.
Maybe we take them out of the CfP but leave a space in the programme for people to do 'hot topic' short talks.
It was just my personal opinion. You can leave it in and we'll see what comes in.
Ciao, Michael.