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First of all, I just want to say that I love seeing all of this discussion on the track chairs list. In summits past it’s sometimes been a little bit quiet around here. = )

On the question of late submissions, I see this as primarily a decision for track chairs. One of the reasons we have always tried to have knowledgable chairs for each track is to make sure that there is strong content across the event. Sometimes this means creating a panel out of a few similar sessions or coaching a promising session that isn’t quite on the mark, sometimes it means recruiting a world class expert on a topic that didn’t know about our event, and sometimes it means bringing in new blood in the form of emerging technologies or marquee users that are just getting involved in the community. I wouldn’t want to see us carelessly circumventing the public submission process that has served us well, but I do believe that ultimately the track chairs should be able to use their collective judgment and wisdom to build the best possible roster for their tracks.

In the case of users specifically, since the call for speakers closes months before the summit, the Foundation staff generally reserve a couple of spots for companies that have new or really compelling stories that come in after that deadline.

It’s awesome to see everyone’s enthusiasm for the process. I really appreciate the effort that you all put into making the OpenStack Summit the best it can be!

Jonathan



> On Feb 7, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Gary Kevorkian (gkevorki) <gkevorki at cisco.com> wrote:
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> From: Matt Jarvis <matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk <mailto:matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk>>
> Date: Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM
> To: "Sebastian Jeuk (sjeuk)" <sjeuk at cisco.com <mailto:sjeuk at cisco.com>>
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> Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Submitting proposals after closing
> 
> Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not really engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something. 
> 
> If it had been just another commercial company implementing it, I wouldn't have brought it up, but given it's a major world government I thought it's a pretty important story for OpenStack adoption.
> 
> On 7 February 2016 at 18:11, Sebastian Jeuk (sjeuk) <sjeuk at cisco.com <mailto:sjeuk at cisco.com>> wrote:
>> I’d agree with Florian’s comment below! If we accept this talk for submission after the deadline, shouldn’t we also accept other talks that might have been submitted too late? Who decides what talk then should be accepted for late submission and which one shouldn’t?
>> 
>> Having said that though it sounds like a very interesting topic to have in one of the next summits. Wondering, I believe the superuser nomination is still open till March 11th. Maybe that could be an option for the summit in Austin before submitting a “proper” talk to the next Summit in Barcelona?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sebastian
>> 
>> 
>> > On Feb 7, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com <mailto:florian at hastexo.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > While I do agree that it would probably be a highly interesting talk,
>> > I will say that by accepting a talk where the submitters were simply
>> > unable or unwilling to follow the rules (unless they tried to submit a
>> > talk on time, and there was a technical issue that prevented them from
>> > doing so — which is unlikely, considering the deadline was extended by
>> > 24 hours), and thus inevitably kicking one out where *those*
>> > submitters did, we wouldn't exactly be fair to the latter group.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Florian
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Sriram Subramanian <sriram at clouddon.com <mailto:sriram at clouddon.com>> wrote:
>> >> It will be a great talk for the audience. Even if there is no way to submit
>> >> past deadline, I am sure there is a way to bring them as invited speakers.
>> >> Lauren had suggested this to Big Data track chairs which had far less
>> >> submissions.
>> >>
>> >> Lauren?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:40 pm Shamail <itzshamail at gmail.com <mailto:itzshamail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Feb 7, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Matt Jarvis <matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk <mailto:matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk>>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there a mechanism for submitting proposals after the closing date ?
>> >>>
>> >>> The UK government is running their next generation tax platform on
>> >>> OpenStack, which has just handled all of the self assessment tax returns for
>> >>> the UK population, and they are keen to propose a case study talk.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sounds like a great talk in general and is a regional user as well.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I have to declare an interest here, because they are running it on our
>> >>> public cloud, but I think it's a fantastic case study for OpenStack in the
>> >>> government sector. If getting a proposal in for Austin isn't possible, I'll
>> >>> talk to them about submitting for Barcelona.
>> >>>
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