DConf 2013 suggestion

[Walter Bright]

On 11/21/2012 5:33 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Now that we know that DConf 2013 is going to happen (congratulations and thanks
> to everyone!), I had a thought about how it might be possible to give some extra
> involvement to those who can't physically make it on this occasion.
>
> Since there are already plans for the whole conference to be videoed, how about
> also making it possible for non-attendees to submit video presentations?  These
> could be made available via the conference website together with comment threads
> where the presenters could get feedback and discuss their work.
>
> A second possibility would be to allow people (whether attending or not) to
> submit proceedings articles.  If there's an interest in this, and in seeing them
> officially published (preferably in an open access venue), I can put out some
> queries to colleagues in academic publishing to see if we can find a nice solution.
>
> What does everyone think?  The only doubt I have is that it might tip the
> balance in favour of non-attendance for some people who are sitting on the fence
> right now.

If people want to submit videos and articles, yes, we can get them published on 
the conference site. I hadn't thought about a proceedings publication, but 
perhaps that can be done as an ebook.