[Foss4g2009] Workshop committee status

[Mark Leslie]

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Because of our technical glitches on the call yesterday, I seem to have 
> missed the agenda items regarding workshops (the one item I was hoping 
> to hear about).  Can someone give me an update on where we are with 
> workshops?  I would like to become active in the workshop committee now, 
> as I have been on that committee every year since the beginning of FOSS4G.
> 
> -jeff


The update was pretty short.  IIRC, there was concern that we'd only 
received one submission for workshops (including tutorials?) so far.  We 
decided not to worry about that too much as it's normal to get the 
majority of submissions in the last week.  I don't think it was 
mentioned in the meeting, but we will need a reminder a week before the 
deadline to jog peoples memories.

We also went over the workshop selection process and agreed with what 
was discussed on the list.  Basically, everyone on the OC that cares to 
reviews all workshops and tutorials and selects their preferred options 
(10 workshops and 12 tutorials I think).  They then tell the group, 
backing up their selection, and we fight it out to some reasonable 
degree of consensus.  I think we had guidelines floating around 
somewhere too, but we won't do any hard-numerical ranking.  We just want 
people working from the same page.

--
Mark