[Workshops] Workshop evaluation reminder

[Mark Leslie]

Just a reminder to interested parties to have a browse of the workshop 
and tutorial submissions and send me your recommendations.
Thanks to all those who have already mailed me!

--
Mark

Mark Leslie 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
> LISAsoft
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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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