Why not limit presenters to only one talk submission? I've seen other conferences with that restriction. For the most part it seems to be a beneficial, by encouraging presenters to submit their best work, rather than submitting multiple abstracts.<br>
<br>As a concrete example, the AGU fall meeting limits potential presenters to the submission of one abstract (of which they are the primary author). However, a presenter can be listed as a non-primary author on other's abstract submission. Since the primary presenter for each talk has to register for the conference, it limits the number of abstracts and (presumably) increases the quality.<br>
<br>- Tyler<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seven@arnulf.us">seven@arnulf.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The concept of having one talk per presenter makes a lot of sense. It will be appreciated by the presenters as well as the audience because they receive a well prepared talk. And the presenters do not get over stressed.<br>
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Not so sure about the restriction of one presentation per organizations. If an org can afford to send several presenters, good for them, good for us. If they mess up it will show.<br>
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But this does not solve the problem that currently one has to submit several talks in the hope that one "will make it". I have no good idea how to deal with that.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Arnulf<br>
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PS:<br>
Germany : Spain<br>
0 : 1<br>
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Too bad. :-)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 07/07/2010 09:21 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:<br>
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People annoyed their talk wasn't selected: News at 11.<br>
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120 slots, 360 talks. I thought the LOC did as well as they could<br>
integrating the community scores (which were heavily biased towards<br>
technology talks on "popular things") with their own judgements, given<br>
that they were going to have to reject 2 of every 3 submissions.<br>
<br>
We could institute an only-one-talk-per-person policy, it would<br>
certainly help revenues (right Cameron? :) There will still be<br>
interesting talks rejected and people annoyed though. I think further<br>
discriminating (as a policy) based on organizational affiliation is a<br>
bridge too far though, if I may put a self-interested oar in.<br>
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P.<br>
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Morissette<br>
<<a href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com" target="_blank">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<off_topic><br>
Since you opened the FOSS4G selection process can of worms, I am of the<br>
opinion that the current FOSS4G selection process has some problems and<br>
needs some work, as demonstrated by the fact that several<br>
people/organizations got multiple talks, while at the same time several<br>
others with less prominent names got turned down with very interesting<br>
proposals. I got comments from several people about that after the<br>
FOSS4G selection results were announced.<br>
</off_topic><br>
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