[EuroPython] Scheduling call for papers and acceptance of talks

[Chris Withers]

Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
> Talk acceptance:
>   - require the actual presentation to be submitted ( we've been very  
> flexible with this previously )

Why is this a requirement?

 > This is just to make sure that people don't feel too  comfortable on
 > what  they already know and try to scrap up the presentations an hour
 > before the  presentation.

This doesn't feel too valid to me. I didn't experience this with any of 
the presentations given last year, do other people feel that this was a 
problem?

I have 2 issues with it:

1. Often the most appropriate time to write talks is the 8-10 hrs it 
takes to commute to the conference.

2. Events often overtake things that are written months before. We work 
in a particularly dynamic environment, requiring a presentation to be 
set in stone months before the conference seems like putting an 
artificial block on how relevent a presentation is...

Chris

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