[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: FOSS4G 2007 Workshop Submission

[Paul Ramsey]

Jeroen,

I appreciate your frustration, and I know it is shared by many  
others, as only 12 of the 34 3-hour workshop submissions could be  
hosted.  The criteria the workshop committee used in their evaluation  
are here:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/ 
FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Criteria_used_by_the_workshop_committee_to_review_w 
orkshop_submissions

All the committee members ranked the submissions on those criteria  
and the rankings were averaged.  Two workshops in the top 12 that  
were topic duplicates were removed and the next-lowest-ranked non- 
duplicates were moved up.  It appears that being on the committee is  
no guarantee of satisfaction with the final result. The average of a  
bunch of lists people want is a list that no one is 100% happy with.

Paul

On 28-Mar-07, at 10:36 PM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

> Dear people,
>
> Thank you for your information. I have to say I find that pretty  
> frustrating and annoying knowing that GeoNetwork opensource is one  
> of the incubator projects of OSGEO, the number of OSGEO projects is  
> (still) limited and FOSS4G is the OSGEO conference.
>
> Participating with the project in OSGEO has multiple reasons, one  
> of them being that it provides opportunities to work on synergies  
> and work on marketing the OSGEO software stack. Now how does the  
> intent of OSGEOs mission fit with refusing a (single) workshop on  
> one of its projects. Maybe I miss something, but I'd assumed there  
> was at least some kind of a relation!?
>
> Looking forward to some good feedback and discussion on this, also  
> on the OSGEO mailing list as I consider that discussion very  
> relevant in the further development of outreach strategies for  
> ourselves and the OSGEO foundation through conferences.
>
> Core question:
>
> "Should OSGEO projects have guaranteed workshop and presentation  
> space for at least one session?"
>
> Regards,
> Jeroen
>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 5:58 PM, FOSS4G 2007 wrote:
>
>> Dear Jeroen Ticheler,
>>
>> We regret to inform you that we will not be able to accept your  
>> Half Day
>> workshop, "Using the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog",  
>> for the
>> FOSS4G 2007 program.  We had a very large number of submissions  
>> this year, and
>>  have been able to accept less than half of them
>> .
>>
>> We hope you will consider bringing some of your ideas to the  
>> conference in the
>>  form of a presentation. The Call for Presentations is currently  
>> open, and
>> there is room for 120 presentations at the conference this year
>> .
>>
>> http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> The FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee
>>
>