Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-10-01 Thread Rich Bowen
I'm actually already conversing with Werner about exactly this issue. On Oct 1, 2014 7:48 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" wrote: > Hi Rich, > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > ...Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved?... > > I just stumbled on [1] which says "Apache Dev

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-10-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Rich, On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: > ...Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved?... I just stumbled on [1] which says "Apache DeviceMap is a collaborative effort by Adobe, OpenDDR and others" which is wrong - Apache projects are never collaborations between compan

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-09-12 Thread Rich Bowen
Thanks. This should be resolved now. Seems it was an upstream problem with Sched. --Rich On 09/10/2014 04:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 08/08/2014 Rich Bowen wrote: * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear, not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Ar

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/08/2014 Rich Bowen wrote: * Read titles and abstracts. Can they be improved? Is a title unclear, not compelling, not descriptive, just plain boring? Are there typos, grammatical errors, or awkward sentences in the abstract? Are there placeholders that need to be filled? That kind of thing.

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-08-08 Thread Rich Bowen
On 08/08/2014 09:16 AM, Branko Čibej wrote: Can I make a typographical complaint, too? There are dashes (-) before the speaker names, which should be either m-dashes (— —) or n-dashes (– –). This is a function of the Sched.org site itself, and apparently not something that I can do anything a

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-08-08 Thread Rich Bowen
It looks like some auto capitalization thing was run to camel-cap everything. Finding stuff like "doesn'T" and "it'S" On Aug 8, 2014 9:16 AM, "Branko Čibej" wrote: > On 08.08.2014 14:59, Rich Bowen wrote: > > As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and > > registrations are

Re: [ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-08-08 Thread Branko Čibej
On 08.08.2014 14:59, Rich Bowen wrote: > As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and > registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that > real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work > things, after being out of the office for two weeks

[ApacheCon] Titles and Abstracts

2014-08-08 Thread Rich Bowen
As you all know, the schedule for ApacheCon is now published, and registrations are starting to come in. I should have numbers on that real soon. Meanwhile, now that I'm finally caught up on most work things, after being out of the office for two weeks, I'm starting back on some of the ApacheCo