GUADEC, again
In the interests of letting people know as quickly as possible the status of their GUADEC papers, I sent out the first round of mails letting people know that their papers weren’t accepted. It’s a really hard thing to do, because some of the people in that list had topics I would have loved to see.
By way of explanation, this year we have tried to avoid talks which present latest developments/features in a program. Talks were selected if they had one of two characteristics – either they were intended to show off how cool GNOME is to new or casual GNOME users, or they are intended to be “important” sources of brainstorming on the strategic direction of GNOME.
This is in line with the philosophy I talked about a couple of months ago. We want GUADEC to be jaw-dropping in the coolness of stuff presented, and really inclusive, with lots of hands-on experimenting, tutorials, BOFs. But we also want it to be thought-provoking and productive for hardcore developers, who have different needs. We want to have a conference that is a facilitator on all levels, and it’s a hard thing to do. But we’re doing our best.
