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I can speak for Cisco in that there is no centralized point of contact for
submissions. None of our talks go through a marketing dept./speaker bureau
scrub.

Each of our talks is submitted individually by the people who will be
(hopefully) giving the talks.

GK


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On 1/31/16, 12:21 PM, "Florian Haas" <florian.haas at hastexo.com> wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Claire Massey <claire at openstack.org>
>wrote:
>> Hi Stef,
>>
>> You are correct. The limit of 3 submissions does currently apply to
>>both the
>> *submitters* and the *speakers*.
>>
>> Back when all of the submission requirement changes were being proposed
>>a
>> few track chairs did ask for the limit to be placed on the submitters as
>> well as speakers. I believe the idea was to encourage people to submit
>>their
>> own talks and also place a limit on the marketing departments from
>>making
>> mass submissions on behalf of others.
>
>I, for one, am entirely in favor of this change ‹ proposers who can't
>be bothered to submit their own talk shouldn't be speaking, and
>companies trying to force their speakers to channel submissions
>through a designated submitter should be discouraged from interfering
>with speaker submissions.
>
>> Since the submission deadline is tomorrow it's a little late in the
>>game to
>> change this requirement for Austin submissions - but we can certainly
>>change
>> it for Barcelona.
>
>I'm sure there will be further discussion on this post-Summit, but at
>least as far as I am concerned, this should not be changed back. I
>wonder what others are thinking about this.
>
>Cheers,
>Florian
>
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