[Foss4g2010] Re: General track Abstract selection

[Lluís Vicens]

Dear Volker,

We don't want to turn FOSS4G2010 into a pure "academic event". Academic 
sessions will have its own track inside foss4g2010 and academic papers 
will only be reviewed by the members of the academic chair. On the 
contrary, the final program of general sessions will be designed based 
on the public voting process, plus the evaluation from the members of 
the scientific committee with the aim to combine quality & interest.

We know about the difficulty to make everyone comfortable with any 
system to select the talks but we will do what we believe that can work 
for the most. Obviously, any comment or suggestion will be appreciated 
so, thanks for expressing your thoughts.

Thanks a lot.
Cheers,

Lluís


	

Lluís Vicens Franquesa
Projectes i Formació
lluis at sigte.udg.edu

*www.sigte.udg.edu* <http://www.sigte.udg.edu>



En/na Volker Mische ha escrit:
>
> On 19.04.2010 11:00, Lluís Vicens wrote:
>>
>> En/na Judit Mays ha escrit:
>>> Hello dear conference organisers,
>>>
>>> catching up on the abstract selection: what has been decided for how 
>>> the
>>> selection process for general track shall work?
>>>
>>> Now that submission deadline has passed is there a vote going on
>>> somewhere? Who is taking part?
>>>
>> Dear Judit,
>>
>> All submitted papers will be reviewed by the members of the scientific
>> committee[1] who are in charge to ensure the quality of the conference.
>> They will accept (or not) submitted papers according to their knowledge
>> and expertise and they will rank the abstracts according to the
>> Quality/Interest for the Conference.
>>
>> At the same time, we are planning to implement a public voting system.
>> Volker first and Paul offered his time and an application for the
>> foss4g2010 (thanks, both of you!!) so, we are deciding how to proceed to
>> make this idea a reality.
>>
>> We will keep you informed.
>> Best,
>>
>> Lluís
>>
>> [1] http://2010.foss4g.org/scientific.php
>
> I like that there is an academic track with an scientific committee 
> that reviews those according to academic standards. Though I'm not 
> sure if I like it for the general track.
>
> For me the FOSS4G is a geek-conference, I know others that see it as a 
> great chance to do business. But I'm not much aware of any people 
> valueing the FOSS4G as a great academic conference.
>
> Lasts years Abstract selection wasn't perfect, there are definitely 
> ways to improve it, though I think we were on the right track. I think 
> the mix of people who made the final selection was a great and they 
> made a great conference possible in 2009.
>
> Those people might have been biased in certain direction, but 
> sometimes that was even a good thing. Some of them wanted to have more 
> geeky topics (like me), some others wanted to make sure there are also 
> talks for people with business perspective, others made sure the 
> selection included a good mix from all over the world (for not being 
> to US/European or Asia/Pacific specific). I even tried that as many 
> people as possible were able to have a talk, and that not one person 
> presents 5 talks.
>
> As you can see it was far from being scientific/academic, but for me 
> it worked well and I guess, and hope, for others as well.
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker
>
>
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