Re: To extend or not...

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ross Gardler wrote:
> Just as an example of the importance of this, OpenOffice will pass 10M
> downloads sometime today. This will create a good amount of press buzz
> within the AOO community. It's an ideal time for the AOO PPMC to push
> the conference and the AOO track there.

Great! Hopefully the deadline extension will help them (and others!) to 
build a great track for their community

> However, without any understanding of the current state of play in terms 
> of talk submissions, deadlines etc. it is hard for the team to come up 
> with a sufficiently upbeat message that matches reality.

Steve - in the absence of the review functionality being live yet, are you 
able to do an export of the current submissions for the track chairs? Or 
is this something that Eldarion can quickly do for us?

(I don't think we want them to take lots of time out of fixing up / 
enabling the review funtionality to do this, but if it's a quick export 
then that'd be great)

Failing that, the admin interface would let us take screenshots of the 
proposal overview for each track, which include the title and the speaker. 
It may almost be enough to go on, but I figure an export would be best if 
possible!

Thanks
Nick

Re: To extend or not...

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote:
> Thanks for the karma granted. But I am not able to modify the home page of
> the site, as opposed to other pages.

I've fixed the date on the homepage, thanks for the report!

Steve - any ideas what's up with Pierre not being able to edit the home 
page? He has been added to the "Page Editors" Group, which I thought was 
all people needed?

Thanks
Nick

Re: To extend or not...

[Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>]

Nick,

Thanks for the karma granted. But I am not able to modify the home page of
the site, as opposed to other pages.

Regards,

Pierre

2012/8/1 Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>

> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote:
>
>> I saw at the http://www.apachecon.eu website the headline of the CfP now
>> shows the extension till Monday 13th of August.
>>
>
> Yup! As mentioned in another thread yesterday, the review system has been
> confirmed to be going live this week, and can run in parallel with the CFP,
> so we've been able to extend as everyone asked!
>
> The plan is to send an announcement to pmcs about the extension and
> putting the banners / details on the website. If someone could help draft
> the first part of that, that'd be great! We want to upload the logos to
> www.apache.org/events/logos-**banners/<http://www.apache.org/events/logos-banners/>for the latter, I'll finish that later today if no-one beats me to it. We
> can hopefully announce that later today :)
>
>
>  But in the section 'Get involved' it still shows August 3rd.
>>
>
> You should have edit karma for the site (it was granted yesterday), so
> please do go ahead and fix things you spot that are wrong such as this
>
> Nick
>

Re: To extend or not...

[Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Pierre Smits wrote:
> I saw at the http://www.apachecon.eu website the headline of the CfP now
> shows the extension till Monday 13th of August.

Yup! As mentioned in another thread yesterday, the review system has been 
confirmed to be going live this week, and can run in parallel with the 
CFP, so we've been able to extend as everyone asked!

The plan is to send an announcement to pmcs about the extension and 
putting the banners / details on the website. If someone could help draft 
the first part of that, that'd be great! We want to upload the logos to 
www.apache.org/events/logos-banners/ for the latter, I'll finish that 
later today if no-one beats me to it. We can hopefully announce that later 
today :)

> But in the section 'Get involved' it still shows August 3rd.

You should have edit karma for the site (it was granted yesterday), so 
please do go ahead and fix things you spot that are wrong such as this

Nick

Re: To extend or not...

[Pierre Smits <pi...@gmail.com>]

I saw at the http://www.apachecon.eu website the headline of the CfP now
shows the extension till Monday 13th of August.

But in the section 'Get involved' it still shows August 3rd.

Regards,

Pierre

2012/8/1 Nick Burch <ni...@apache.org>

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Ross Gardler wrote:
>
>> Just as an example of the importance of this, OpenOffice will pass 10M
>> downloads sometime today. This will create a good amount of press buzz
>> within the AOO community. It's an ideal time for the AOO PPMC to push
>> the conference and the AOO track there.
>>
>
> Great! Hopefully the deadline extension will help them (and others!) to
> build a great track for their community
>
>
>  However, without any understanding of the current state of play in terms
>> of talk submissions, deadlines etc. it is hard for the team to come up with
>> a sufficiently upbeat message that matches reality.
>>
>
> Steve - in the absence of the review functionality being live yet, are you
> able to do an export of the current submissions for the track chairs? Or is
> this something that Eldarion can quickly do for us?
>
> (I don't think we want them to take lots of time out of fixing up /
> enabling the review funtionality to do this, but if it's a quick export
> then that'd be great)
>
> Failing that, the admin interface would let us take screenshots of the
> proposal overview for each track, which include the title and the speaker.
> It may almost be enough to go on, but I figure an export would be best if
> possible!
>
> Thanks
> Nick
>