Re: [guadec-list] GUADEC 2008 - Just start Rocking

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

I've checked Expectnation but I realized it's a service not a free
software. I don't think it's suitable while we could do this with free
alternatives. 


On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 09:56 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 21:07 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 14:10 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > One other thing - it's about time to start thinking of the program
> > > committee - the call for papers, selection criteria, schedule and so on.
> > > Usually the call for papers goes out mid January, it might be an idea to
> > > have a sketch of a schedule and a program chair in place as soon as the
> > > venue is confirmed.
> > 
> > Ross wrote some web stuff to help with paper selection for 2007, but I
> > think he has said somewhere that he'd rather use Expectnation in future:
> > http://expectnation.com/public/content/home
> > 
> > It could be a big help.
> 
> Expectnation is proprietary, although Edd has offered a free license in
> the past.  Some may feel that GNOME is committing a terrible sin by
> using closed source for planning GUADEC, so it may be worth considering
> the Python conference system (which I can't recall the name of) or
> Pentabarf:
Maybe Indico (http://cdsware.cern.ch/indico/) ? 

> 
> Ross