[Workshops] Re: Workshop evaluation process

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Mark; I sent a short email to the udig and geotools development list
asking for volunteers to join this email list. Hopefully you will need to
resend this message again in a couple of days.
Jody


On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Mark Leslie <mrk.leslie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> The workshop[1] and tutorial[2] submissions are in and ready for review.
>  If you plan on having your say on what will be presented in October, please
> download the pdfs and have a read.  Send your recommendations to me <
> mrk.leslie at gmail.com> using a subject of "FOSS4G Workshop Review" by the
> start of my day Monday[3] and I will summarise the preferences and reply to
> all those that have voted in the case of any close calls that merit
> discussion.
>
> All I need in the email is a ranked list of ten workshops, twelve
> tutorials, but you will be called upon to justify your opinions if there are
> close cases.
>
> [1]
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/documents/workshops/Workshops.pdf
> [2]
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2009/documents/workshops/Tutorials.pdf
> [3]
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=3&day=16&year=2009&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=240
>
> Mark Leslie
> Geospatial Software Architect
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> Mark Leslie wrote:
>
>> Greetings all,
>> I promised a quick overview of the process we will be running through for
>> workshop and tutorial submissions, so here it is.
>>
>> After the call closes (tonight for me) I will be munching through all the
>> submissions and producing two pdf docs, one for workshops one for tutorials.
>>  These will be made available for people to review, likely by posting them
>> here.  What I will need is everybody to send me a list of their favorite 10
>> workshops (or fewer), in order of preference, and their favorite 12
>> tutorials (or fewer).  If there are workshops that you would really like to
>> see run as tutorials, make a write-in vote and we can pester them to change
>> formats if needed.  These should be sent to me (mrk.leslie at gmail.com use
>> "FOSS4G Workshop Review" as the subject please), not to a public list.
>>
>> I will then to one of two things.  I can create a private list if there
>> are sufficient people reviewing (only two have answered by call thus far)
>> and we can move discussion to that, or I'll just email everyone directly.  I
>> will aggregate the votes and tell everyone the results identifying clear
>> winners and which selections need to be fought for. I'm not going to impose
>> any 'conflict of interest' restrictions here, you may vote for your own, but
>> please flag it as your own during voting and discussions.
>>
>> The final decision on the recommendation rests with me, which I will make
>> from the discussion in a week or so.  This recommendation will be passed to
>> the OC and they will make adjustments as they require.
>>
>>
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