I love smart and open guidelines as the one we have:<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Official_OSGeo_Event_Policy#OSGeo_Event_Guidelines">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Official_OSGeo_Event_Policy#OSGeo_Event_Guidelines</a><br>
and our mission:<br><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/about">http://www.osgeo.org/about</a><br><br>I would not change a line in this documents<br><br><br>said this, I'm sorry if some interesting presentations are not inside the program. I'm know we had to exclude a lot of interesting ones. <br>
Anyway I know we did our best and that's what make me feel comfortable with our choices.<br><br>ciao<br>Lorenzo<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Judit Mays <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mays@lat-lon.de">mays@lat-lon.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I have not been reading the corresponding mails on the mapserver-dev<br>
list, but from what I have been reading here I would like to toss in my<br>
2 cent.<br>
<br>
Limiting the presentations to one per person disregarding the topics<br>
they talk on would obviously not make much sense. So instead of focusing<br>
too much on the number of talks per person, I would value it higher to<br>
ensure that the OSGeo-Gathering-Of-Tribes (FOSS4G) will first of all<br>
represent all OSGeo projects equally well, while also giving other<br>
(non-OSGeo) open source projects a fair chance to present their projects<br>
and work.<br>
<br>
So instead of focusing on "how many presenters from whatever<br>
company/organization?" I suggest to focus on "does the conference<br>
program present the OSGeo projects well?". Once that is achieved, give<br>
the remaining free slots to non-OSGeo open source projects so they may<br>
gather enough momentum to join OSGeo in the near of far future.<br>
<br>
With regard to what Cameron said about the hard job of choosing which<br>
abstract to accept: I am glad that it is not my duty to do the selection.<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Judit<br>
<br>
<br>
Paul Ramsey schrieb:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> People annoyed their talk wasn't selected: News at 11.<br>
><br>
> 120 slots, 360 talks. I thought the LOC did as well as they could<br>
> integrating the community scores (which were heavily biased towards<br>
> technology talks on "popular things") with their own judgements, given<br>
> that they were going to have to reject 2 of every 3 submissions.<br>
><br>
> We could institute an only-one-talk-per-person policy, it would<br>
> certainly help revenues (right Cameron? :) There will still be<br>
> interesting talks rejected and people annoyed though. I think further<br>
> discriminating (as a policy) based on organizational affiliation is a<br>
> bridge too far though, if I may put a self-interested oar in.<br>
><br>
> P.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Morissette<br>
> <<a href="mailto:dmorissette@mapgears.com">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> <off_topic><br>
>> Since you opened the FOSS4G selection process can of worms, I am of the<br>
>> opinion that the current FOSS4G selection process has some problems and<br>
>> needs some work, as demonstrated by the fact that several<br>
>> people/organizations got multiple talks, while at the same time several<br>
>> others with less prominent names got turned down with very interesting<br>
>> proposals. I got comments from several people about that after the<br>
>> FOSS4G selection results were announced.<br>
>> </off_topic><br>
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