Andrae, Jacinta and I spent some hours this afternoon going over the proposals and making the final selections. Previously we (and other volunteers) reviewed and commented on proposals based on the volunteer’s subject matter expertise, knowledge of the speaker’s subject and speaking ability, and so on.

Anyway, Andrae now has the magic pile with everything decided, and we’ll have the conference system send out notifications in the coming week. If you made multiple proposals, you’ll be notified for each individually – so acceptance or rejection of one says nothing about any other proposals you made… oh, and we shifted the paper submission schedule, of course – you will have time to prepare!

Thanks for your patience. It’s going to be a great conference.