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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Re: community voting…perhaps you can have an interface for rating abstracts which randomizes the list to try and get rid of the burnout bias towards abstracts at the front of the queue. Then people can review 30 or 40 abstracts and it won’t be the same ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> foss4g2011-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:foss4g2011-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Batty<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 18, 2011 4:40 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tyler Mitchell<br><b>Cc:</b> foss4g2011-private@lists.osgeo.org; foss4g2011@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Foss4g2011] Re: [Foss4g2011-private] Re: Bunch of procrastinators:)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So we made it to almost 300 abstracts in the end, some more stats at <a href="http://bit.ly/ejoKx9">http://bit.ly/ejoKx9</a>. Submissions from 35 countries, half the total from the US and Canada and half from the rest of the world which was nice balance I thought!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Re introductory material, as Tyler said we are planning a day before the main conference in parallel with the workshops as an intro session and hope to attract a good number of newcomers to FOSS. Not sure I agree with the Joe and Adena's views of the state of FOSS here though, I think your perception may just depend on the circles you move in! But certainly think there is a big potential audience for introductory material so we will make sure we provide that, as well as lots more heavyweight content too, of course.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Re the community voting, we do plan to do that again (as was done last year with a similar number of abstracts). I agree there are pros and cons to this, will see how it works this year and I think it's worth more discussion about whether to continue it next year. As in previous years, the results will be a guideline to the committee, they will have scope to make adjustments to get a good spread of topics / products etc. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tyler Mitchell <<a href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 2011-04-18, at 3:12 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:<br>> Therefore it might be helpful to actively design track that focuses on the needs of this clientele.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>There's a whole day already dedicated :)<br><br><a href="http://2011.foss4g.org/intro-details/" target="_blank">http://2011.foss4g.org/intro-details/</a><br><br>But I bet there will end up being more in the main program too._______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Foss4g2011-private mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Foss4g2011-private@lists.osgeo.org">Foss4g2011-private@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2011-private" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2011-private</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>
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