Hi everyone!
Thanks so much for making the time for this. You can find below, the notes of the meeting.
On a separate note, I’ve just been informed by Heidi that she unfortunately, had to withdraw her participation in the papers committee due to overwhelming work commitment.
best,
adelia
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Notes of Papers Committee meeting #1 (25 April 2016, 14:00 UTC)
Present:
Sri
Rob
Meg
Cosimo
Adelia
Conference schedule:
- 3 days, from Monday to Wednesday
- Close main tracks early on Wednesday around 3 pm to make way for a workshop
- Thursday to Friday for BOFs
- Other mini events to include: Lightning talks and GNOME 3.22 Release party!
Tracks:
Start with broad generic tracks, and as we receive papers may have more clarity on grouping subjects
- Plumbers style
- Intel folks: graphics power, etc
- Platform track
- capture topics of plumbing, HW, drivers
- Distribution track
- Development track
- Ecosystem track
- business, community, social
Plenary session:
Potential speakers to invite
- Alex
- Miguel
- Valve
Call for paper:
- Slotted for May 2, 2016
- To invite speakers for each track so it’s representative
- Talks can be up to 45 minutes
- Workshop duration is 1 hour 30 minutes
Action Items:
- @Rob to write first draft of press release for call for papers by April 27th.
- @Rob to ping John Vert at Valve
- @Rob to ping mjg59 re: speaking/sponsorship
- @Rob to ping jrp at Microsoft re: speaker/event/sponsorship
- @Rob to ping Jono at GitHub re: speaking/sponsorship
- @Cosimo to approach Matt re: plenary & sponsorship
- @Cosimo to reach out to Alex re: plenary
- @Cosimo to reach out to Guy Lunardi
- @Sri to reach out to Rob Taylor at codethink re: speaking/sponsorship
- Reach out to Miguel? (unassigned)
