[Chat] Collecting general feedback about the conference?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:28:49PM +1100, Michael Still via Chat wrote:
> All of these ideas are good, but they've also been tried in the past.
> 
> One of the issues is that the conference organizers are focussed on a
> single year's conference, so they're heads down making that thing happen.

This reminds me of something that could be improved.

Too many talks were submitted, a smaller number was taken. After mine
was rejected, I asked last year and this year if they took backup
speakers in case they ended up with a hole in the schedule.
Both times I was told "no"
This year, there were at least 3 or 4 slots with no talks.
I've heard some other speakers were asked if they could present at the
last minute and they had to decline due to lack of time to prepare.
In the meantime, some of us had a talk that had already been written,
given, ready to deliver, and were told "no thanks, we don't need backup
speakers".

Somehow I think this can be improved :)

Marc
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