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

[Judit Mays]

Hi everyone,

I have not been reading the corresponding mails on the mapserver-dev
list, but from what I have been reading here I would like to toss in my
2 cent.

Limiting the presentations to one per person disregarding the topics
they talk on would obviously not make much sense. So instead of focusing
too much on the number of talks per person, I would value it higher to
ensure that the OSGeo-Gathering-Of-Tribes (FOSS4G) will first of all
represent all OSGeo projects equally well, while also giving other
(non-OSGeo) open source projects a fair chance to present their projects
and work.

So instead of focusing on "how many presenters from whatever
company/organization?" I suggest to focus on "does the conference
program present the OSGeo projects well?". Once that is achieved, give
the remaining free slots to non-OSGeo open source projects so they may
gather enough momentum to join OSGeo in the near of far future.

With regard to what Cameron said about the hard job of choosing which
abstract to accept: I am glad that it is not my duty to do the selection.

Kind regards,
Judit


Paul Ramsey schrieb:
> 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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