[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Trim down meeting

Wed Apr 13 00:35:48 PDT 2016

Hi LOC and programm committee,

A few thoughts after reviewing almost 50% of the abstracts (a "review 
mid-term review"):
- Several functional themes (indoor mapping, routing, performance 
testing) have a few (about 5) abstracts sent in. I think it would be 
valueable to sort of group them together, so you get a cluster of 2-3 
talks on 1 theme, instead of "isolated" talks; Which may link to the 
"topic talks" idea.

- Same goes for the talks on FOSS as a phenomonon: e.g. the talk on the 
diff between : "free" and "open".

- A larger amount of abstracts (at least 15-20) are about "the state of 
project XYZ". More one-way trafic (with possibly a few explanatory 
questions afterwards) but less discussion, I suppose.
Together they are the "exhibition space of FOSS4G projects"

- Next we have a lot of "best practices" open source software (and often 
open data) applied to solve a real life problem

- This year we'll have a "hyde park speakers corner" where people can do 
a short (5 min.) talk in an open theatre style. Abstracts that don't fit 
in the regular program may find their way to this "speakers corner";

@Volker: is it possible to make a few cross-tables based on the tags 
that have been suplied to the abstracts?

regards,

Gert-Jan

Volker Mische schreef op 10-04-2016 23:41:
> Hi Program-Committee,
> 
> not that many have filled out the Doodle yet [2], but I also don't want
> everyone to have block so many possible dates. As most people have time
> on Friday 2016-04-16 at 15:00 CEST we'll do the meeting there. I hope
> that many of you (even if you haven't filled out the Doodle) will join.
> 
> Is everyone OK with trying a Goggle Hangout together with using a 
> Google
> Spreadsheet to do the review? If there are objections, please send me 
> an
> email and propose alternatives. I'll try to find out if I can get a
> proper Hangout URL until Friday :)
> 
> Happy reviewing till Thursday. Please be finished by then, so that I 
> can
> do a final export on Friday.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Volker
> 
> 
> On 04/02/2016 03:35 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>> Hi Program-Committee,
>> 
>> there's still time to review, but we should also agree on some time to
>> do the actual selection. The selection process will follow the steps 
>> we
>> did in 2014 [1].
>> 
>> I propose doing it the same way as in 2014, I'll prepare a Google
>> Spreadsheet where I'll put the results. We will then take this as a
>> basis for our discussions. We will then go through it via Google
>> Hangouts/Skype/whatever you prefer. This means we need some time where
>> all of us have the time to do it. If someone can't participate, that's
>> not a big deal, but the more we are the better.
>> 
>> I've created a Doodle [2] so that we can easily find the best time.
>> Please plan for about 3h of time (if you've less time, again, no
>> worries, better help a bit than not at all :) So please fill out the 
>> Doodle.
>> 
>> You will then of course be able to do the reviews until we have the
>> first meeting (I'll do a fresh export on the day of the meeting).
>> 
>> We will then have a second meeting to group the talks together, so it
>> would be good if you have some time the week after :)
>> 
>> [1]: http://2014.foss4g.org/abstract-review-process-for-foss4g-2014/
>> [2]: http://doodle.com/poll/xriqs2asedmczdr9
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>> 
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