On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Cynthia Ng <cynthia.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How often do people send in more than two proposals anyway?
A lot. A whole lot. That said, I don't think we should limit this. If the program committee is comfortable with weeding the second (third, fourth!) elected proposals out in favor of the next most popular presentations, I don't see the problem. FWIW, we have done this since the very first conference (Casey Durfee, I think, had two proposals voted in and we asked him to choose one and let the next highest vote getter in). -Ross. > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin S. Clarke <kscla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Curious about the no limit on number of proposals per person. I know >> we've discussed this before, but I don't remember the reasoning for >> this decision. Is it just that we limit in the actual presentation (1 >> presentation max per person) so various proposals are okay? Why not >> just limit up front? >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Cynthia Ng <cynthia.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm really glad to see this discussion continuing. It seems like >>> there's a good amount of support for at least giving a certain amount >>> of sessions over for the program committee to decide. >>> >>> At 15%, we'd be looking at 3-4 slots reserved for the program >>> committee (whoever that might be next year) to do with as they wish. >>> If there's no opposition, I'd still like to propose giving the >>> committee the flexibility to use those slots to "diversify" the >>> program, one major consideration being first time presenters, but not >>> being an absolute requirement. >>> >>> Limits >>> As of right now, we are still sticking to these limits, and I'd be in >>> favour of keeping it >>> * 1 presentation max per person (not including pre-conf) >>> * 2 presenters max per presentation >>> * No limit on number of proposals per person >>> >>> Agreed: presenter anonymity--