On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Joe Brockmeier jzb@redhat.com wrote:
On 02/15/2016 01:53 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
Earlier than 2 months out? I thought ticket prices were optimal in that range. Either way, Mar 14 seems way too soon for me. We can go end of April and it's still 3 months out.
There's time off considerations, budgeting, visas... I'm not sure how much lead time we've had in the past, I just know this is a constant refrain I hear when talking to people about events. "Oh, I wish I'd known sooner..."
Known sooner about the event? That's fine. They can know all they want. It's a matter of spreading the word as far as possible. That doesn't mean we need to close talk submission.
As for budget, we normally operate on a quarterly basis. Most departments are going to chalk Flock up as a Q2 expense, not a Q1 expense. Booking travel for speakers isn't going to begin until Q2 most likely either. Which means we'd have closed CFP early for no benefit. If we close it at the end of April, we can get the schedule set before Q1 wraps up easily. That's another 6 weeks of letting people plan and figure out what they want to talk about. Hopefully it cuts down on the staleness factor Remy mentioned as well.
We only have 30 talks submitted thus far. I'm not at all convinced we're going to get sufficient number of talks submitted in a month to actually have a conference. Even if we go with the "last minute submission" principle, I really think we'd wind up short.
I talked to Diane Mueller about Flock a bit ago and she was assuming we'd already done the CFP and had everything locked.
That sounds like something that needs to be corrected ASAP. Perhaps you or Matt could send something internally.
josh