[FOSS4G2016] Draft of Call for Participation in the Program Committee

[Volker Mische]

Hi Gert-Jan,

thanks for the feedback. I've updated the wiki page.


On 11/29/2015 05:05 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl >
A few thoughts on this:
> 1. Make clear what kind of knowledge you expect from the PC members. Must they have technical insight in OSGeo (and other FOSS4G) projects? Or do they require knowledge about the several domains where open source geo is applied?

I've added a new paragraph.

> 2. Make clear what the role of the PC members is: just reviewing and voting? or also contacting the rejected presenters

Rejecting will just be a bulk mail being sent out.

> 3. Can you make an estimation how much time it will cost the PC members to review the expected abstracts

That pretty much depends on your reading speed. But I added another
sentence mentioning that it could be over 300 abstracts (2014 it have
been around 280 iirc).

> 4. Is this only a selection on talks, or also about workshop proposals?

Talk only, the workshop team is a different one. But you remember me
that I wanted to talk about it, whether we use the same system for
workshops as well or not.

> 5. "During the community voting phase (beginning of April) you'll also vote on the submitted abstracts of the talks." change to "During the community voting phase (beginning of April) the members of the Program Committee will vote on the submitted abstracts of the talks as well."

Change.

> 6. Community voting tends to choose proposals "in the middle", proposals that a lot of people know about. Why not reserve at least a few slots for "PC's picks", "wildcards" or whatever you will call them: proposals that don't necessarily gain a lot of votes, but that are according to the PC very valuable

That will happen during the selection process. The Program Committee has
the last say on which talks are acceppted.

> 7. Same goes for non-proposals: suppose the PC thinks some important subjects (a project, an application etc.) is missing in the submitted abstract, how about trying to find a presenter on that subject (and thus keeping a slot reserved for this purpose)

If it comes up, sure. Though I haven't seen this in 2014 or 2009.

Cheers,
  Volker

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: FOSS4G2016 [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Volker Mische
> Verzonden: zaterdag 28 november 2015 03:32
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> Onderwerp: Re: [FOSS4G2016] Draft of Call for Participation in the Program Committee
> 
> Hi LOC,
> 
> it would be cool to have a vote on the CfPitPC below in the next IRC meeting, so that I can send it out afterwards. I'll send it to OSGeo-Discuss, the conference and this list.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Volker
> 
> On 11/22/2015 01:55 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>> Hi Loc,
>>
>> I reach out to you as the Chair of the Programme Committee. At 
>> previous FOSS4Gs (at least 2009 and 2014) the programmee committe 
>> itself consisted largely of the members of the LOC. Though it's not an 
>> exclusive club of people, which is the reason there's also a "Call for 
>> Participation in the Programme Committee" (CfPitPC), where the 
>> responsibilities are described. I've put a draft of this call into the 
>> wiki [1]. Please have a look at it and give feedback, but please also 
>> think about joining the committee.
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Call_for_Participation_in_the_
>> Program_Committee
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>>
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