[Scale-planning] Question about Saturday keynote speaker

[Hriday Balachandran]

Hi Lan,

She's on the front page now.

Bala.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Hriday Balachandran
<bala at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
> Hi Lan,
>
> Guilty as accused on all accounts. Will try to fix some of them.
>
> Bala
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Lan Dang <ldangmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> tl;dr I don't see blogpost on website with announcement, and I don't see
>> announcement @socallinuxexpo.
>>
>> Thanks for the confirmation.   I acknowledge that there is information on
>> the website listing her talk.
>>
>> The problem I've keep having with the SCaLE website is discoverability.
>> When I try to tell people about all the cool stuff at SCaLE, I spend a lot
>> of effort tracking down website links I can use to point people to
>> information, instead of just trusting them to be able to discover it at
>> https://socallinuxexpo.org
>>
>> I can find things because I know they exist and where to look for them.
>> Most people wouldn't go through this effort.
>>
>>
>> For example,  while you have a blogpost listing Karen Sandler as a keynote
>> speaker, I don't see a similar announcement for Dr. Moran.  Karen Sandler is
>> listed as a Featured Speaker, but Dr. Moran is not.
>>
>> And I actually looked at the @socallinuxexpo Twitter feed going back to the
>> announcement of Karen Sandler for keynote, and I don't see a similar
>> announcement for Dr. Moran.
>>
>> Because of an email newsletter, I know that Dr. Moran is a keynote speaker
>> for Saturday.  So I searched the speaker list to find the link to her
>> presentation abstract.   Now that the schedule is available, I also know to
>> look at the Saturday schedule and click on the Keynote to get to this page.
>>
>> Otherwise, it would never have occurred to me that you had confirmed a
>> second keynote speaker.
>>
>> Lan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Hriday Balachandran
>> <bala at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's on the site. And she is the speaker. Please promote it! I'm just
>>> as excited about her talk.
>>>
>>> I do believe it was on twitter.
>>>
>>> Bala.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Lan Dang <ldangmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I saw a SCALE Newsletter that said that Dr. Christine Corbett Moran of
>>> > Caltech will be the keynote speaker for Saturday.
>>> >
>>> > I can see the entry on the schedule, but I'm perplexed why this was not
>>> > announced on the SCaLE website or Twitter.
>>> > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/speakers/christine-corbett-moran
>>> >
>>> > She's one of my selling points for promoting SCaLE to the Caltech/JPL
>>> > community, so I would like to know if I'm being premature in advertising
>>> > this.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Lan
>>> >
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