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Subject: Re: Help finding missing talk
From: Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org>
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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:32:30 -0500
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On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com> wrote:

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> On 02/19/2014 03:12 PM, Suresh Marru wrote:
>> Hi Rich et al,
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>> As we briefly discussed on IRC, I see this talk[1] on Thrift use case =
from Airavata got lost in Big Data track. I reached out to thrift PMC =
for alternative thrift talks and Jake Farrell volunteered to co-presnet =
if this RESTless talk is selected (making it more general with Airavata =
as one of the use case). Since there is vacant slot in track 10 on day =
1, can we have it there? It seems to be reviewed by 7 reviewers with =
decent rating.
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> I need to start by giving my canned response that I'm giving to =
everyone:
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> We had 250 talk submissions. We had 162 talks, which we then expanded =
to 168 to fit in yet more content. Even then, we had to eliminate 80 =
talks, many (most) of which were worthy of running if we had had more =
space.
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> I'm very reluctant to open the floor to lobbying for individual talks, =
because that way lies madness, hurt feelings, and resentment.
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> Having said that, you mention that we have an open slot.
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> We expanded Monday into a tenth track to accommodate the Fast Feather =
Track. We  put two additional talks there because 1) the speakers were =
already going to be at the conference and, 2) because of my =
miscommunication with Angela we sent acceptance notices to them when =
they were already marked as rejected.
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> We are already receiving cancel notices from folks whose plans have =
changed since the CFP and are not able to attend, and if we don't need =
the tenth room, we will slim back down to 9.
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> So, with that context, I'll say that I'm willing to have this =
conversation on this list, but I wanted to be completely up front about =
my extreme reluctance and the reasons for it.
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> Discuss amongst yourselves.

With no further comments on this thread, any objections to schedule this =
talk?

Suresh

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