The Head of Tech Programming (read: Me) thinks this is a good idea.  If you want to qualify for the $10 panelist discount, you'll need to write a 1,000 or so word white paper on what you want to talk about.  Panelists/Presenters who dont feel like writing a paper giving insight to their panel/talk will get the full-rate charge this year.  We changed the rules this year, because people abused the three-panel-then-you-get-a-discount policy by just not showing up and/or by putting themselves on panels /just/ to get the discount, and then doing a crappy job on them.  <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Wolfger <<a href="mailto:wolfger@gmail.com">wolfger@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> They are already soliciting ideas for panels for next year. I had an idea for which I need some panelists: How to Stand on the Shoulders of Giants Building applications efficiently by using (and re-using) existing code and APIs. I currently don't have much to say on this myself, but hopefully by next year I will, since I am working on a project (Tweek) which is being built upon multiple other applications (twyt, pysqlite, sqlite). In fact, I'd enjoy talking to some prospective panelists so that I don't have to learn the best way to go about this from scratch. ;-) -- Wolfger <a href="http://wolfger.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://wolfger.wordpress.com/</a> My 5 today: #78273 (qgis), #184496 (casper), #126181 (empathy), #193798 (hal), #130644 (ttf-dejavu) Do 5 a day - every day! <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day</a> -- ubuntu-us-mi mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-mi@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mi" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mi</a> </blockquote></div>