From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2008-08-05T10:42:12+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyConf 2008 call for talk proposals On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 05:09 +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:01 PM, James Britt 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 second or third or whatever this idea. In other conferences/forums/publications, "self-plagiarism" is frowned upon. I was a referee for another conference a while back, and I bounced a paper by an extremely well-known person in the field because it wasn't substantially different from last year's paper. ;) It's easy for me to say that, since I'm not going to be able to make RubyConf this year. ;) > > I have to make one exception though. Giles Bowkett. Let him give his > talk on Archeopteryx twice a day, if you wish ;) Is this on video somewhere? I haven't seen it. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Alfr��d R��nyi via Paul Erd��s