Hints for Fleshing Out the CFP Proposals
Since the things you put in the description and abstracts will be used in the program and on the website you should probably expand them a little bit to give folks a better idea of what to expect. You will also need a small biography. To see some examples of what sorts of things people have put for these, you can look at the websites for previous years' SCaLEs. Here's how...
Tags: these will help people search the online schedule to find your talk. Please include some.
For the Short Biography, go to this schedule page from 2014, click on any person's name and it will take you to their bio. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x/schedule/sunday.html on that schedule page you can also see examples of the titles of the presentations. Click on the title of the presentation and you will see the Brief Description.
For the Short Abstract, look at some of these examples from 2015: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations?page=10 you can go forward and backward through the pages to see more. You may notice that for some talks there the brief description and the short abstract at quite similar.
I wouldn't worry too much about the Long Abstract. Many people just past in their Short Abstract and add a little more information. There is really no need to write the maximum words unless you want to!
I hope this gives you the info you need! If you have more questions, just let us know. When you change or add to description and abstracts and add your bio, please send copies to us too (in addition to adding it to the CFP page. We need that information too.