[OSGeo-Conf] Re: [mapserver-dev] GeoServer superseeding MapServer in Europe?

[Paul Ramsey]

People annoyed their talk wasn't selected: News at 11.

120 slots, 360 talks. I thought the LOC did as well as they could
integrating the community scores (which were heavily biased towards
technology talks on "popular things") with their own judgements, given
that they were going to have to reject 2 of every 3 submissions.

We could institute an only-one-talk-per-person policy, it would
certainly help revenues (right Cameron? :) There will still be
interesting talks rejected and people annoyed though. I think further
discriminating (as a policy) based on organizational affiliation is a
bridge too far though, if I may put a self-interested oar in.

P.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> <off_topic>
> Since you opened the FOSS4G selection process can of worms, I am of the
> opinion that the current FOSS4G selection process has some problems and
> needs some work, as demonstrated by the fact that several
> people/organizations got multiple talks, while at the same time several
> others with less prominent names got turned down with very interesting
> proposals. I got comments from several people about that after the
> FOSS4G selection results were announced.
> </off_topic>