[Foss4g2009] Workshops and tutorials

[Cameron Shorter]

Mark, I think that process is a good idea.

I'd add that there should be a weighting given to each criteria.

Also, who is going to do the ranking? Are you going to open up voting to 
all OSGeo? We do want equal representation from all attendees, so we 
might need to give certain groups extra weighting in their votes (Eg, 
the SSI, representing local attendees maybe should get higher votes)

Mark Leslie wrote:
> With the call for workshops and tutorials going out yesterday 
> (presumably) we need to sort out how we should go about ranking and 
> selecting them.  I seem to remember putting together a suggestion but 
> for the life of me I have no idea where I put it.
>
> My suggestion is that we basically have some simple guidelines and let 
> the organising committee run with them.  I feel it's more important to 
> exert our will over the workshops since we have fewer of them than 
> previous years and we need to ensure we have a high ratio of beginner 
> workshops, our presenters are as experienced as possible, etc.
>
> Tutorials I expect will be a different balance.  24 slots gives us 
> more flexibility, and I would like to see the developers and advanced 
> users catered to as much as beginners.  I  also feel that we should be 
> able to define four clear tracks once we can see what submissions we 
> have to work with.
>
> The criteria that I've been discussing to date are (in no particular 
> order):
>
> * Presenter experience with the material and FOSS4Gs (more important 
> for workshops)
> * Beginner oriented (only for workshops)
> * Fit with the "User Driven" theme
> * Fit with other tutorials and available tracks (only for tutorials)
> * Hands-on content (mandatory for workshops, preferred for tutorials)
> * Balance of user level within the program (only for tutorials)
> * Quality of the content of the response
> * Quality of the written description (if they can't write a decent 
> description how will they write a decent tutorial?)
>
> Volker was working on an app to allow us to vote on these, which would 
> make life easier, but I think we need to be aware that simply taking 
> the top N in the ranking won't necessarily provide us with the balance 
> of content we need.  I haven't heard if he has finished or not.
>
> Any thoughts on our process?
>


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