[Chat] Collecting general feedback about the conference?

[Michael Still]

The LCA papers process provides the conference organizers with several
lists:

 - a list of papers we think should be accepted
 - a list of papers we think should be reserved for backups (either they
just missed out, or are talks from already accepted speakers)
 - a list of papers to decline

What the conference organizers do with those lists varies from year to
year. Some years chose to tweak the accept list more than others for
example.

So, it is definitely true that the conference organizers have a list of
backup talks, because we give them one. What they chose to do with it is up
to them.

Hope this helps,
Michael





On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org> wrote:

> 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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