Monday, March 17, 2008

Q&A about submitting proposals

Please use this thread for questions about the submission process; I, and others, will do our best to answer.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Question: what if I can only be there on some of the days?

This came up on a Facebook thread; here was my reply:

Please do submit a proposal -- if you can only be there on certain days, mention that in your proposal, but don't let that hold you back.

Once all the proposals are in, the program committee often combines some; this is also when we look at constraints like people's availability.

Anonymous said...

Question: are other people submitting proposals on the same topic?

Answer: quite possibly.

However, don't let this possibility keep you from submitting a proposal of your own. The program committee often combines related or similar proposals.

If you know people who are might be submitting proposals, consider touching base with them: a combined proposal is likely to be stronger -- plus it makes things easier on the program committee :-)