It seems like the competition to get a speaker spot at Lotusphere goes up each year.  As a devoted non-Lotuspehere attendee for the past 16 years I find that gaining access to the Presentations acts as a useful substitute.  Not as good as being there but I learn heaps.  My suggestion is to offer all those that were not accepted the chance to submit presentations and/or PDF, assign fictitous Session IDs and publish these with all the official Lotusphere presentations.  That way the community can still find out more from the great many brilliant submissions that don't make the cut.  As an added incentive pethaps we could even conduct a poll on those presentations that missed the cut and offered to publish anyway and award a 2nd chance price to one of these to attend a LUG or even lotsuphere the following year.