On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:00:36PM +0100, Michael Ströder wrote:
Submission Deadline: 6th September 2015 Author Notification: 28th September 2015
Isn't that a bit late? The final program is *the* premise for people booking the event. We have to do some PR work which takes time. And employees probably have to ask their boss for traveling budget etc.
Good point. We could pull the first two dates forward by a month or so. I would not want to come too far forward, as then the authors might feel that their work will be a bit old by the time it is presented. We also need to pick a time when the programme committee will be available to respond to the submissions quickly.
How about this:
Submission Deadline: 28th June Author Notification: 10th July Publish draft programme: 3rd August
That allows some time for negotiation with authors if necessary, and gives the search engines something to work on through August. I would probably expect to start hitting mailing lists and trade press at the start of September (no point in letting announcements sink in a pile of other stuff while people are on holiday).
=> IMO the program should be on-line at *least* 2,5 months before the event.
Main presentations should last about 45 minutes including discussion; we will also provide smaller slots of 15 minutes and 5 minutes for lightning talks.
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.
For the conference proceedings we expect you to submit a paper (not just slides, please)
We never demanded that yet. Some people might be discouraged by having the extra work.
I suppose so. I thought this had been the requirement before, but reading the previous CfP I see you are right.
Andrew