GUADEC Rejections
Well, I just got back from the Desktop Linux Summit to find an email awaiting me telling me that my proposal for a talk on NetworkManager was rejected this year for GUADEC. ... I can see why getting contributors into GNOME is rather difficult. Even though I'm going to continue working on GNOME because I'm paid to, it's rather disheartening to go through this. Looks like it will start to be a work-only thing instead of a work-and-free-time thing. To all you who have somehow made it into the "in crowd", have fun in Catalonia. I probably won't be going.
To be fair there were two Network Manager talks submitted, one by Christopher and another by Robert Love. What is worse: telling one of the two that their talk isn't accepted, or having two talks at GUADEC on the same subject?
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Posted by Vidar Braut Haarr at Thu Apr 27 15:27:30 2006:
Maybe the "right" thing to do would've been to e-mail the two persons and ask them if they could make a joint presentation, or work it out between themselves who got to do it.
Who knows, it might've ended up a better presentation.
Posted by Ross at Thu Apr 27 15:42:21 2006:
Posted by Joe Buck at Thu Apr 27 18:38:28 2006:
Who knows, it might've ended up a better presentation.
This is just a fact of life as conferences become popular. The leading conferences in my field are down to a 20% acceptance rate; this means that a lot of very good papers are being rejected, which means, in turn, that many academics and grad students who could benefit from attending and presenting can't attend (because while they might be able to get financial support as a presenter, it's not available to random attendees whose papers were rejected).
If the goal of the conference is to have good talks, and there are two competing talks on the same subject, the right choice is to choose the better talk, not to try to mash a better talk and a worse talk into one talk.
If the goal of the conference is to get all the developers together, then maybe a different strategy is appropriate.
If the goal of the conference is to have good talks, and there are two competing talks on the same subject, the right choice is to choose the better talk, not to try to mash a better talk and a worse talk into one talk.
If the goal of the conference is to get all the developers together, then maybe a different strategy is appropriate.
