From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T05:09:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyConf 2008 call for talk proposals

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I make a plea regarding the selection of talks?
>
>
> Please do not accept talks that have already been given at other Ruby or
> Rails conferences, especially if there are videos for those talks.
>
> Given the competition to get a talk in, and what I expect will be a wealth
> for really good talk proposals, more people are better served if new
> topics/talks are granted stage time.

I strongly support this idea.  I'd go a step father and encourage
speakers to stop recycling talks.  Please tell the world about your
projects, and even tell many different groups about the same project,
but create a new talk each time.  If you can't do this, it means your
topic is either not deep enough, or that you'd be better off making a
screencast and posting it on the web somewhere.

I have to make one exception though.  Giles Bowkett.  Let him give his
talk on Archeopteryx  twice a day, if you wish ;)

-greg

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