<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>One thing I really disliked in the past is that the size of abstracts really differed and abstracts were sometimes really large. </div><div><br></div><div>Please limit people to a small and to-the-point abstract, at least for the voting process.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Volker Mische <<a href="mailto:volker.mische@gmail.com">volker.mische@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 10/02/2012 11:24 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter<br><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">With my "simple maths" hat on:<br>Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about,<br>and provide a ranking.<br>Total review time = 300 minutes = 6 hours.<br><br>Best not to complicate the review process thus increasing review time.<br><br></blockquote><br>Agreed - and if I was presented with a big list of 150 abstracts and<br>150 radio buttons from -2 to +2 I'd get to about 20 before giving up.<br>However, a system that presented random pairs of abstracts or names<br>and asked simply "which would you like to see?", then took a "this<br>one/that one/dont know" response (with big fat buttons to easily<br>click), and then presented another pair would enable reviewers to 'dip<br>in' and do a bit more reviewing at any time.<br><br>Its the "kitten war" method: <a href="http://kittenwar.com/">http://kittenwar.com/</a><br></blockquote><br>IIRC, the abstracts were always in random order, so that even if<br>everyone did a subset things should work out fine.<br><br>Cheers,<br> Volker<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>