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

[Cameron Shorter]

Selecting presentations is tough.

Conference organisors have many conflicting priorities, some very vocal 
observers (in software developers), and very silent 50% (in the local 
gis industry).

I haven't analysed the foss4g 2010 presentation selections and I don't 
intend too. It was hard enough in 2009. I assume that 2010 followed a 
similar process of picking the popularly ranked projects, and then also 
guessed at some of the presentations which the silent half would like to 
see.

It is a tough call, and I thank them for taking on the very tough and 
mostly thankless task.

On 08/07/10 05:21, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 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>
>>      
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