[OSGeo-Conf] Re: Presentation acceptance

[Jeff McKenna]

I can confirm that I have worked with past FOSS4G local committees where 
they merged, limited, and distributed talks accordingly.  The problem is 
that there is no hard rule for this set in the request for hosting 
document, therefore there are no hard rules for local committees to 
follow.

So as chair of the conference committee I am listening to these concerns.

-jeff



Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I agree that a hard rule of one presentation per organization may not
> make much sense nor be the best option, but at least the number of
> presentations any single organization already got could be taken into
> account when breaking ties for the last few slots to give a chance to .
> (Hopefully that's happening already)
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Another idea to free some spots without losing interesting topics is to
> get back to those (people/orgs/projects) with multiple talks on similar
> topics that made the initial cut and ask them if they could merge two
> (or more) proposals into a single presentation (we did this for
> Rendez-vous OSGeo-Qc). Doing this would have freed a few slots in this
> years's program. Chances are that anyway the multiple proposals were
> submitted in the first place in the hope that at least one would make it.
>