[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Trim down meeting: annual project reports

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Anyway: does this influence our scores for the 280+ abstracts: do we
>> give the annual report/state-of the project submissions a bye to advance
>> to one of the 180 available slots.
>
> I don't think it influences the score much (at least not in my votes). I
> would rate them high anyway. Though (as mentioned above), even it they
> wouldn't get voted highly, I would still give a slot.
>
I agree, I have always rated those talks high (for exactly that
reason). Note that some OSGeo projects actually had no submission at
all, eg mapguide.