[OSGeo-Conf] Evaluating proposals...

[Jeff McKenna]

Yes I agree with you Jeremy, we'll have to put out the 2008 RFP in early 
2007.

(glad to hear that you are interested)

jeff




Jeremy Morley wrote:
> 
> On a related theme, we didn't put in a proposal because we think time is
> relatively tight to organise a big event, promote it, request papers,
> etc.  Would it be possible in the first quarter of 2008 to put out a
> second request, for hosting in 2008?  It would give the potential
> organisers much better lead time.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeremy Morley
> 
> 
> Steve Lime wrote:
>> Folks: What is the process going to be for evaluating proposals? Given
>> the short timelines it seems like that some sort of a standard
>> assessment should be done by reviewers. Perhaps this is all ready to go
>> and I just missed it.
>>
>> One idea might be to develop a short evaluation form for everyone to
>> score proposals. It might consist of a short checklist (items each
>> proposal must have) and then a series of areas that reviews could rank
>> proposals on a scale of one to five or something like that. After review
>> each evaluator would have a score for each proposal that could be used
>> rank submissions and guide discussions (one or two might float to the
>> top immediately). Just an idea.
>>
>> Steve 
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