All right, I will put up a revised draft with some of these ideas by Friday. Please take a look at it, if it is fine, I will work with Anand C to create the CFP on the site and get it live by March 10. Meanwhile, can someone take a look at the topic list and suggest anything to be removed or added specifically or a change in order ? --Anand On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 02 2011, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
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We could. As a matter of fact, we were thinking about having three tracks, "newbie", "advanced" & "theme". IMHO it's a good idea to have a general theme. As far as themes like "NoSQL with Python", don't you think that those talks will turn out to be general evangelism about the NoSQL DB and some tips about using the related client library? It's not bad per se, but can turn out to be monotonous if we have many talks along the same lines.
I don't think this is a good idea. Tracks should be made using a single criterion if they're to be sensible.
Either we choose 'theme' as the criterion in which case, the tracks would be like "testing", "web", "core python" etc. The "level" of the talk (novice, intermediate etc.) would be something extra.
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We choose 'level' as the criterion and let the tracks become 'novice', 'intermediate', 'advanced' but with a mix of subjects.
Also, I agree about staying away from tracks like "cloud" and "noSQL". Like you said, we'll get a lot of talks from n00bs who've read the man pages and it'll get boring. I heard a lot of negative feedback about the mongodb talk last year.
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