On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Stewart, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Gottlob Frege > Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 2:14 AM > > > > I have a suggestion for next year: > > > > "Hidden Gem Award" > > > > ie a talk that fewer people went to (because it was in a > > smaller room, for example), but those who went rated it very > > highly. I suspect Lisa's talk was in this category, for > > example. > > > > I'm not _exactly_ sure how to measure this, but the goal would > > be rating-per-attendee. Problem is we don't actually know the > > real number of attendees. We can approximate it either via > > sched signup, or just via room assignment - ie the award could > > just be "best talk not in Flug". > > I like that idea, Tony. > > If someone snaps a picture of every session, it should be easy to get a > head count. (Late arrivals might not be counted, though.) > I think our current system accounts for this to a certain extent. Because folks can heavily weight their "best session" scores, it isn't unthinkable that a talk in beta gets best session. I believe this happened with Lisa's talk a couple years ago. Of course, having a bigger audience only helps things. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "boostcon-plan" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
