From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-07-28T22:17:23+09:00 Subject: Re: About last night ... dblack@wobblini.net wrote: > Hi -- > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Charles O Nutter wrote: > >> On 7/27/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> >>> a. The upcoming Ruby Conference in Colorado had 73 proposals for papers >>> submitted, of which only 16 could fit into the schedule, >>> b. There are only 240 slots for *attendees* to the conference, while >>> there are most likely thousands with the means and desire to attend, >>> and >>> c. Given b, people are actually running scripts to poll the conference >>> web site and grab the registration form, in the hopes that they'll be >>> one of the lucky 240. >>> >> >> I for one have been very disappointed with the limtations put on >> RubyConf >> this year. >> >> - Only ten days were given to submit proposals > > Submissions started on June 1 and ended on June 30. That's 29 days. Plus, at one point you almost had to beg for proposals. :)