Michael Ströder wrote:
Andrew,
Andrew Findlay wrote:
Here is the first draft of the call for papers.
thanks for working on this so quick. I agree with most of it.
Deadlines & Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 6th September 2015 Author Notification: 28th September 2015Isn'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.
=> IMO the program should be on-line at *least* 2,5 months before the event.
Agreed, we need to give people time to make their travel plans. This part of the timeline should be much earlier.
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.
Probably does no harm to make it available. If no submissions come in we haven't lost a huge amount of time, but we might get more submissions from people who aren't prepared to create a bigger presentation.
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 seem to recall that actual papers were solicited before.