GUADEC update
Phew! Submissions “officially” closed last Wednesday, but we’re nice guys, and there has been a trickle of late submissions coming in since then.
We have not been able to get back to everyone yet, but let me assure you that we are not going to refuse papers just because they were late. However, after the weekend, the selection committee are going to start separating the wheat from the chaff, and once that starts happening, papers are more likely to be rejected.
There are 56 submissions so far for the papers track, including tutorials and BOFs. It’s not bad, but I thought there would be more. Perhaps it’s a little early in the year for people to think about GUADEC.
We will be looking for less formal things (BOFs, flash talks, module maintainer brainstorming sessions and the such) a little closer to the conference (before the end of March) for people who really want to be on the schedule. And I expect that there will be a bunch of ad hoc impromptu sessions during the event too.
Thanks to everyone who submitted papers, sessions, BOFs and tutorials!
