I agree that Halloween is not the ideal deadline.  Although I had submitted my proposals earlier in the week, I'd meant to edit it more, but got distracted.  Would 11/1 have made that much of a difference?

I do prefer having having a confirmed list of speakers and presentations when I try to evangelize SCALE attendance at work.  We have to forecast for conferences 3 months in advance, so showing the list of speakers and presentations could push someone into attending or having their managers approve attendance.

We promoted SCALE and the CFP at the SGVTech Open House.  I happened to have old SCALE programs on hand, so that was useful.  I'll think twice about tossing them now.  

I had to field some questions from people I had recruited, who were worried about actually having to submit a paper and weren't sure which track to sign up for.  Since I'd had experience applying and speaking at SCALE before, I told them it was just a short and long abstract for the talk they wanted to give and maybe a note to the reviewers with links to websites or previous talks.

Lan


On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:40 PM Mx Siltanen <mrsiltanen@gmail.com> wrote:

> The longer we wait the more nebulous the conference is to first time attendees and exhibitors we want to reach. 

I have encountered this often when promoting SCALE - showing first timers the past year's schedule has been very useful.

imho - Having a short video summarizing SCALE to potential exhibitors, sponsors, and attendees would be useful for this. Does not need to be long just a couple minutes showing some highlights of the past year's sessions, expo floor, ... we could use something along this line to help convey the message of what SCALE is.




On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:12 PM Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
We need to be able to announce sessions earlier so as to allow for proper promotion to attendees, and more importantly to allow speakers to book reasonably priced travel. The longer we wait the more nebulous the conference is to first time attendees and exhibitors we want to reach. 

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 11:58 PM Mx Siltanen <mrsiltanen@gmail.com> wrote:

imho 

It would be very nice to have the deadline after some of the local events - like Hackaday supercon ( this weekend, 1st weekend of Nov. ) - where we can encourage those we meet there to post a presentation.

If we can do it even later - then we can promote the close of CFP at So Cal Code Camp LA - typically mid-November.

Closing it after either event imho would help us recruit presenters we may see at those events.

Of course, the other option is to close sooner than those events ( like we did this year ) - and allow an exception if we see some good presentations worth inviting.

Thank You


On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 8:00 PM Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
We can move it earlier, if we can announce it earlier.  Later makes review very difficult with the holidays.


On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 6:44 PM der.hans <verteiler+scale-planning@lufthans.com> wrote:
moin moin,

can we push the deadline back a day for SCaLE18x?

Having the deadline on Halloween makes it difficult to finish last minute
reviews and proposals for many of us.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween :).

ciao,

der.hans
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