To all LDAPCon speakers
Thank you once again for proposing papers and tutorials for LDAPCon. We have published the list of accepted papers and we are close to publishing the schedule for the tutorial day. I also expect to publish the ticket prices and details of sponsorship packages this week.
Papers and Slides
Please send electronic copy of your full papers and/or presentation slides to submissions2015@lists.ldapcon.org as soon as you can. It would really help to have these by 10th October so that we can make them available to delegates when they arrive. The plan is to have full text on the conference website, but to restrict it to registered delegates until some time after the conference.
It may not be appropriate to make detailed tutorial notes available to the public. If this applies to your tutorial, please let me know.
Posters
I would encourage all speakers to bring along posters showing technical details of each presentation. This will be particularly useful where the presentation slot is short as there may not be time for discussion during the session. The poster can act as a focus for discussion at other times.
We will have display boards available for this. They are just under A0 size, but I am told that A0 posters can be attached. This is very large for a single sheet of paper so it may be better to bring several smaller ones! Make sure that you use large text and bold lines so that the poster can be read from a reasonable distance. If you are travelling a long way it may be best to have the poster printed by a UK service and sent directly to Edinburgh. One such service is Instantprint: https://www.instantprint.co.uk/posters/a1 - I have not tried them yet, but the information on their website looks sensible.
The display facility is for technical posters only. Event sponsors will have the option to display commercial posters, and I hope that many of you will be able to persuade your organisations to become sponsors.
Expenses
We expect that most speakers will be able to claim expenses from their employers, but we know this will not be possible for everyone. The conference has a budget to support speakers travel and accommodation, so please let me know as soon as possible if you are likely to need this. The budget is dependent on us getting enough sponsorship and ticket income so I don't know exactly how much we have. Please send me details of what you need help with before 10th September. You will find information about local accommodation linked from the travel page:
http://ldapcon.org/2015/?page_id=28
Promote the Conference
Help us to spread the word! Tell your contacts about the conference, point them to the website: http://ldapcon.org/2015/ and link up with our social media streams - you will find icons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Lanyrd at the bottom-left of each page on the website.
Thanks again for getting involved!
Andrew