<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Hi all,</span></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">I just had a couple of questions for you all about the GEA Conference coming </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">up. Was the deadline extension a result of not enough people signing up? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">I'm just curious because the proposal guidelines seem demanding. I </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">was thinking to submit but it requires a cover letter and an 800-1000 word </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">abstract. I'm presenting at two international conferences this year and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">they didn't require that much. They asked for 250 words for a session </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">description and 500 words or less for the abstract. Is this something the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">ITSA handles? Can the requirements be altered to better fit the scale of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; ">conference?</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Thanks,</span></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: Calibri; ">Jeff</span></div></div></body></html>