[Foss4g2011] Re: [Foss4g2011-private] Re: Bunch of procrastinators:)

[Peter Batty]

Like I said, it wasn't really a very serious suggestion ... I think it's
just a fact of life for the organizing committee, but it's just stressful
when there are 3 days to go to the deadline and you only have 60 abstracts
and are worried you may not have a viable conference, did we publicize
things enough, etc etc.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de> wrote:

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> 2011/4/19 Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
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>> On 2011-04-18, at 2:42 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
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>> > Paul Ramsey is the man behind the online voting system, I'm pretty sure
>> he told me it includes randomizing the display order. Though a potential
>> future enhancement would be to have some sort of weighting for those who
>> submit earlier, to try to encourage everyone not to wait until the last day
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>> It's a neat idea to bring in abstracts sooner, as long as submitters know
>> there is that parameter.  Wouldn't be too fair this year would it, nor would
>> it help guarantee the best quality program at this point in time at
>> least._______________________________________________
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> Does it make any difference for the program committee if an abstract is
> submitted early or late? You have to wait for the last submission day
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> I doubt that the quality of an abstract is related to the submission day.
> It's probably more the every-year-the-same presentations that are the early
> ones ;-)
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> Daniel
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