I am not thrilled with the idea of anonymous proposals as I think that goes against the openness non-organization that is code4lib. Also based on the numbers posted earlier it seems inputs are more of an issue then the voting.
However, I love the idea of X number of presentations reserved for first time presenters. I don't know what the value of X should be but Bess's idea of 15% sounds good to me. I'd personally also like to see a limit to the number of talks someone can give or propose, but I know this has been brought up before and, at least in the past, there was not overwhelming support for this. Edward -- Edward M. Corrado On Nov 27, 2012, at 18:41, Bess Sadler <bess.sad...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not volunteering to write the voting mechanism for this, but what if we > had two rounds of voting? > > 1. First round, anonymous (people who follow these things avidly would of > course have read everyone's names on the wiki, but I think for most people > not having the names listed means you have removed the names from > consideration). We use the current system of assigning points. Once you've > cast that ballot, then you get ballot 2: > > 2. The same ballot with the names present. You now have the opportunity to > change your vote, if you want to. It might be because you didn't realize that > person who secretly bores you was one of the speakers. It might be because > what at first looked like just another talk about marc software sounds more > compelling if its from someone who's never spoken before. > > I wonder if we might also set aside a separate competition for first time > speakers? Say, 15% of the talks? Assuming that generally speaking, offering > ways for early-career folks or those new to public speaking to participate is > a good thing and would benefit diversity as a bonus. > > Bess > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Kelley McGrath <kell...@uoregon.edu> wrote: > >> I'll second the idea of approaching people individually and explicitly >> asking them to participate. It worked on me. I never would have written my >> first article for the Code4Lib Journal or become a member of the editorial >> committee if someone hadn't encouraged me individually (Thanks Jonathan!). >> >> It would also be good to find a way to somehow target the pool of lurkers >> who maybe aren't already connected to someone and get them more involved. >> >> As far as anonymous proposals go, we recently had a very good workshop on >> implicit bias here. Someone brought up that found significant changes in the >> gender proportions in symphony orchestras after candidates started >> auditioning behind screens. There are also lots of studies about the >> different responses to the same resume/application depending on whether a >> stereotypically male/female or white/black name was used. Probably it's >> impossible to make proposals completely anonymous, but it would be an >> interesting experiment to leave off the names. >> >> Kelley >> >> PS Interestingly, I wouldn't instinctively self-identify as a member of the >> Code4Lib community, although my first thought is that that has more to do >> with not being a coder than with being a woman. >> >> >> ************************** >> Kelley McGrath >> Metadata Management Librarian >> University of Oregon Libraries >> 1299 University of Oregon >> Eugene, OR 97403 >> >> 541-346-8232 >> kell...@uoregon.edu
