Not really, we've decoupled those two by having barcamp sessions. Also we're going to prefer Fedora contributors irrespective of talk sessions being accepted.
On 3 April 2015 10:34:15 am IST, "pravin.d.s@gmail.com" <pravin.d.s@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2 April 2015 at 18:42, Amit Shah <amitshah@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Just a note to let you all know that we've been reviewing talk and
>> workshop submissions for FUDCon Pune this past week, but won't be
>able
>> to finish deciding on the accepted talk list till a couple weeks
>> more. We had earlier set the deadline for 3 Apr, we now are revising
>> to 15 Apr.
>>
>> There have been a lot of submissions, and scheduling time + holidays
>> hampered us meeting to decide on the submissions.
>>
>> Also, we're asking a few speakers for updating / clarifying their
>talk
>> abstracts, so that adds to the delay too.
>>
>> Nothing is blocking on this activity, though, and this delay isn't
>> impacting the final schedule, so we're safe for now.
>>
>
>I think Travel sponsorship is blocking on this activity. Good to get
>exact
>number of speaker ASAP. It will give clear picture of how many people
>we
>need to sponsor.
For non-Fedora or new contributors we will decide on their requests on merit as well as available budget in addition to talk submissions.