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Posted to dev@community.apache.org by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com> on 2014/08/08 14:59:48 UTC
[ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and
registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that
real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work
things, after being out of the office for two weeks, I'm starting back
on some of the ApacheCon related tasks.
Here's how you can help.
* Look at the schedule at http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/grid/ looking
for places where someone is speaking twice at once, or where there's an
obvious conflict between two talks (ie, the same topic at the same time).
* See if a speaker is giving two (or more) talks back to back.
* See if the talk ordering in a particular track doesn't make any sense,
or, at least, could be improved.
* Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear,
not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos,
grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there
placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.
* If you are a speaker, blog about your presentations, telling people
why they should be there. Tweet about it. G+, Facebook, LinkedIn,
MySpace, whatever you have to do. Get the word out. YOU are the most
effective way to get people to the conference. Tell your projects' dev
and user lists, forums, NNTP groups and local meetup lists. Help us wish
we had a bigger venue.
If you encounter any of this stuff, email me, or respond to this thread,
so that we can get it fixed.
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
I'm actually already conversing with Werner about exactly this issue.
On Oct 1, 2014 7:48 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bd...@apache.org>
wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
> > ...Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved?...
>
> I just stumbled on [1] which says "Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative
> effort by Adobe, OpenDDR and others" which is wrong - Apache projects
> are never collaborations between companies and organizations, they are
> driven by individuals (I know you know that Rich, just being extra
> clear ;-)
>
> I suggest replacing that with "Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative
> effort to create a comprehensive...".
>
> Ccing Werner in case he's got a better suggestion that respects the
> ASF's neutrality.
>
> The "later that year OpenDDR contributed DDR APis for Java and. NET"
> bit is ok, it's factual.
>
> Thanks!
> -Bertrand (DeviceMap incubation mentor)
>
>
> [1]
> http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/096b8f5178467c494b9348e857cf3bef#.VCvYtimSyRM
>
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>.
Hi Rich,
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
> ...Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved?...
I just stumbled on [1] which says "Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative
effort by Adobe, OpenDDR and others" which is wrong - Apache projects
are never collaborations between companies and organizations, they are
driven by individuals (I know you know that Rich, just being extra
clear ;-)
I suggest replacing that with "Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative
effort to create a comprehensive...".
Ccing Werner in case he's got a better suggestion that respects the
ASF's neutrality.
The "later that year OpenDDR contributed DDR APis for Java and. NET"
bit is ok, it's factual.
Thanks!
-Bertrand (DeviceMap incubation mentor)
[1] http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/096b8f5178467c494b9348e857cf3bef#.VCvYtimSyRM
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
It looks like some auto capitalization thing was run to camel-cap
everything. Finding stuff like "doesn'T" and "it'S"
On Aug 8, 2014 9:16 AM, "Branko Čibej" <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 08.08.2014 14:59, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and
> > registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that
> > real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work
> > things, after being out of the office for two weeks, I'm starting back
> > on some of the ApacheCon related tasks.
> >
> > Here's how you can help.
> >
> > * Look at the schedule at http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/grid/
> > looking for places where someone is speaking twice at once, or where
> > there's an obvious conflict between two talks (ie, the same topic at
> > the same time).
> >
> > * See if a speaker is giving two (or more) talks back to back.
> >
> > * See if the talk ordering in a particular track doesn't make any
> > sense, or, at least, could be improved.
> >
> > * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear,
> > not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos,
> > grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there
> > placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.
> >
> > * If you are a speaker, blog about your presentations, telling people
> > why they should be there. Tweet about it. G+, Facebook, LinkedIn,
> > MySpace, whatever you have to do. Get the word out. YOU are the most
> > effective way to get people to the conference. Tell your projects' dev
> > and user lists, forums, NNTP groups and local meetup lists. Help us
> > wish we had a bigger venue.
> >
> > If you encounter any of this stuff, email me, or respond to this
> > thread, so that we can get it fixed.
>
>
> Can I make a typographical complaint, too? There are dashes (-) before
> the speaker names, which should be either m-dashes (— —) or
> n-dashes (– –).
>
> Some project names are not written correctly, at a glance I found OFBiz:
> It's sometimes written "Ofbiz", and sometimes "Apache-OFBiz", both of
> which are wrong; the correct spelling is "Apache OFBiz" or just "OFBiz".
>
> "From Squid To Happines In 42 Easy Step" is missing a plural form in the
> last word.
>
> Capitalization of the session titles is still not consistent.
>
> That's all for a 10-second glance :)
>
>
> -- Brane
>
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
On 08/08/2014 09:16 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Can I make a typographical complaint, too? There are dashes (-) before
> the speaker names, which should be either m-dashes (— —) or
> n-dashes (– –).
This is a function of the Sched.org site itself, and apparently not
something that I can do anything about.
>
> Some project names are not written correctly, at a glance I found OFBiz:
> It's sometimes written "Ofbiz", and sometimes "Apache-OFBiz", both of
> which are wrong; the correct spelling is "Apache OFBiz" or just "OFBiz".
I believe I've fixed all of these in the titles, although it looks like
the Apache-OFBiz spelling might persist a place or two in abstracts.
Still looking.
> "From Squid To Happines In 42 Easy Step" is missing a plural form in the
> last word.
Fixed
>
> Capitalization of the session titles is still not consistent.
This will take a lot more work. It looks like someone ran a script over
all of the talk titles to camel-cap them, and in the process did some
Bad Things. :(
> That's all for a 10-second glance:)
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>.
On 08.08.2014 14:59, Rich Bowen wrote:
> As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and
> registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that
> real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work
> things, after being out of the office for two weeks, I'm starting back
> on some of the ApacheCon related tasks.
>
> Here's how you can help.
>
> * Look at the schedule at http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/grid/
> looking for places where someone is speaking twice at once, or where
> there's an obvious conflict between two talks (ie, the same topic at
> the same time).
>
> * See if a speaker is giving two (or more) talks back to back.
>
> * See if the talk ordering in a particular track doesn't make any
> sense, or, at least, could be improved.
>
> * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear,
> not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos,
> grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there
> placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.
>
> * If you are a speaker, blog about your presentations, telling people
> why they should be there. Tweet about it. G+, Facebook, LinkedIn,
> MySpace, whatever you have to do. Get the word out. YOU are the most
> effective way to get people to the conference. Tell your projects' dev
> and user lists, forums, NNTP groups and local meetup lists. Help us
> wish we had a bigger venue.
>
> If you encounter any of this stuff, email me, or respond to this
> thread, so that we can get it fixed.
Can I make a typographical complaint, too? There are dashes (-) before
the speaker names, which should be either m-dashes (— —) or
n-dashes (– –).
Some project names are not written correctly, at a glance I found OFBiz:
It's sometimes written "Ofbiz", and sometimes "Apache-OFBiz", both of
which are wrong; the correct spelling is "Apache OFBiz" or just "OFBiz".
"From Squid To Happines In 42 Easy Step" is missing a plural form in the
last word.
Capitalization of the session titles is still not consistent.
That's all for a 10-second glance :)
-- Brane
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Rich Bowen <rb...@rcbowen.com>.
Thanks. This should be resolved now. Seems it was an upstream problem
with Sched.
--Rich
On 09/10/2014 04:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 08/08/2014 Rich Bowen wrote:
>> * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear,
>> not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos,
>> grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there
>> placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.
>
> This looked OK until... until today I clicked on
>
> http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/6ab6772bd382bb86151c1f43adb8ef26
>
> and saw that the title, speaker (me, next to title) and abstract look
> correct and similar to the values I submitted, but at a closer look
> the speaker bio under the abstract is not mine: it's the one of
> Christian Schneider.
>
> Indeed if you look at
> http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/speaker/christianschneider
> you'll see that Christian is reported to be giving about 20 talks with
> half a dozen different identities... something has to be fixed here.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
--
Rich Bowen - rbowen@rcbowen.com - @rbowen
http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
On 08/08/2014 Rich Bowen wrote:
> * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear,
> not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos,
> grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there
> placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.
This looked OK until... until today I clicked on
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/6ab6772bd382bb86151c1f43adb8ef26
and saw that the title, speaker (me, next to title) and abstract look
correct and similar to the values I submitted, but at a closer look the
speaker bio under the abstract is not mine: it's the one of Christian
Schneider.
Indeed if you look at
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/speaker/christianschneider
you'll see that Christian is reported to be giving about 20 talks with
half a dozen different identities... something has to be fixed here.
Regards,
Andrea.