[Foss4g2009] Workshops and tutorials

[Volker Mische]

I think it is enough to say that the current voting system that works
best from command line (python shell) and the web interface is a wild
mixture of URLs not linked to each other. Is this horrifying enough?

Cheers,
  Volker

Mark Leslie wrote:
> Public voting is dead (I hope).  I had expected to use your voting
> mechanism within the OC to make reporting on votes easier.  It is a
> pretty rough system at the moment.  Is the system publically viewable so
> that people can have a look and be horrified?
> 
> Mark Leslie
> Geospatial Software Architect
> LISAsoft
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> Volker Mische wrote:
>> Does it mean that the idea of a public voting for tutorials/workshops is
>> dead, and there will only be a voting for presentations? The voting
>> system works but is far from being usable (I showed it to Mark last
>> week, no changes till then).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>>
>> Mark Leslie wrote:
>>> I expect we'll be doing a pick 10, as we have ten slots, but yes, this
>>> is much better.  I do want to give some criteria so that we're all
>>> working to something resembling the same vision, and it's easier to
>>> establish this up front, but after toying with the rating game earlier
>>> I'm not convinced it will give us what we want.
>>> Mark Leslie <mrk.leslie at gmail.com>
>>> Mark Leslie
>>> Geospatial Software Architect
>>> LISAsoft
>>>
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>>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf 19-21 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009
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>>> LISAsoft is part of the A2end Group of Companies
>>> http://www.ardec.com.au
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>>>
>>> Robert Coup wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sayeth Yoda: Read carefully the notes Dave Patton left on workshop
>>>>> evaluation on wiki.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once you rank things, particularly if you take the time and effort to
>>>>> do multiple criteria and scoring, diverging from the ranking becomes
>>>>> hard.  Allow me to suggest my own game theoretic variant:
>>>>
>>>> I agree 100% with Paul, pick-12 is a much better solution in practice.
>>>>
>>>> We've been using this for Summer of Code evaluations at Dojo after
>>>> ranking
>>>> became painful to manage, despite explicit instructions.
>>>>
>>>> Rob :)
>>>>
>>>>
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