There were more proposals for RailsConf this year than there were attendees at RubyConf 2006. This means two things:
1. The state of the Rails community has changed significantly in that it has grown and there is a larger subset reaching the expert level.
2. It’s going to take us a while to sort through all of these proposals and make selections. Apologies in advance.
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December 17th, 2007 at 08:41 AM
Perhaps accept twice as many proposals and give them 25 minutes instead of 50 minutes.
December 17th, 2007 at 03:03 PM
Or, perhaps, you could force everyone to present as a lightning talk (even the keynotes) so you can accept everyone.
You know, much like John Cage’s view of sounds in music, I think every proposal has value, and frankly, not choosing one is unethical and goes against the order of the universe. Or something. ;)
December 17th, 2007 at 05:00 PM
Please tag them this year – beginner, intermediate, advanced, or commercial demo.
December 17th, 2007 at 06:47 PM
I like Dr Nic’s idea of shorter sessions.
December 17th, 2007 at 09:33 PM
Personally I have a short attention span so I like the idea of shorter talks, although I think 25 minutes is a little low.
Rather then doing birds of a feather talks in the evening, it’d be great to see some organized lightning talk sessions. Maybe speakers who don’t make the cut for official daytime sessions should be given the option to do a night-time lightning talk session?
Some might see this as an alternative to Rejectconf. Perhaps it’s time to make rejectconf part of the conference itself? I’m sure there will probably be more people in attendance this year, so it’d be great to have a conference venue to do such an event.
If you need any help organizing something like this, feel free to drop me/jason a line.