Op 09-12-2006 om 19:35 schreef Christophe Vandeplas:
Geert Stappers wrote:
I'm asking because I wonder how ever the E-mail could end in "It doesn't fit"
So what was in the gap inbetween?
Bad communication, and <snips> in the mails probably
On the 20th of October I have got an email from Dag Wieers to H. Peter Anvin with a part of internal mails. Where Dag tells H. Peter Anvin to contact me if he was interested to do a talk. As a FOSDEM organisator that co-works on the schedules I do get many mails with propositions for main track. The same day H. Peter Anvin mailed Dag (and myself) that he would mail me with info.
The 4th of December I've got another mail from H. Peter Anvin, with a kind of request if it'd be possible to speak at the main tracks. Quote: | I just got reminded about this... the interest seems to be in me doing a | talk on the recent and planned developments of SYSLINUX. I'd be | interested in doing so, and I'm pretty sure I can arrange the time, but | not the travel expenses.
Ah, the "What is needed?" was brought as "here is a proposal"
As you can see my answer above, his talk doesn't fit into the empty slots of the main tracks. With the conference a few months ahead many timeslots/rooms are already booked. and even if the project and talk about syslinux is really interesting there's no place left for this talk.
Making the FOSDEM conference bigger and having more lectures isn't also a solution. There are two reasons for this. First of all, it'd be difficult to get a large room. But the most important thing is that visitors are already complaining that there are to many parallel lectures (if you count the devrooms). So adding another room isn't an choice.
:-/ the downside of a success ...
Thank you for understanding the situation,
Sincerely yours
Christophe
Thanks for explaining Cheers Geert Stappers