New Conference Proposals

Nov 26 20:05 UTC 2010

This is where you should enter proposals for new conferences.
 
The normal procedure is this:  People kick around your suggestion for a
while - say, a week or two.  If the cfadms see that there's a lot of
interest, they'll normally email you to discuss a few details.  If they
don't, you can email cfadm to say *you're* still interested, and the
conference will be set up.
 
Obviously, there are no guarantees that anyone will ever join or read
your conference.  If this matters to you, you may want to gauge others'
interest before starting.  (We've had a very few people grouse along
the lines of "What's wrong with this system, anyway?  I set up this
neat conference, but it's been completely dead!".  Other
conferences have just quietly expired, to nobody's apparent dismay.)
 
Ideally, you should propose a name for the conference, give some idea
what it's intended to discuss or accomplish, and propose a fairwitness
or fairwitnesses - preferably with the agreement of those you propose.

-albaugh, Coop9, Item 8.