I have been on conference committee for almost a decade, I can’t recall us ever
having more than 4 proposals for the global FOSS4G. Each year there are
different factors that influence our choices, I don’t recall a year when there
was much doubt about who we should select. A predetermined markin
My philosophy is and hopefully will always be that we have trust in the
committee members that do the voting. They all put in their time and more
importantly their heart. Whatever method you come up with, bias and personal
preferences come into play. I trust in the people/members + the guideline
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 1:13 PM Jonathan Moules via Discuss
wrote:
> I don't think there's any need to reinvent the wheel here; a number of
> open-source initiatives seem to use scoring for evaluating proposals. Chances
> are something from one of them can be borrowed.
>
> Apache use it for scor
Quoting " To work around this, with public sector contracts in the western
world you have a list of requirements and then all the bids are scored against
those requirements. The one with the highest score wins the contract. *That* is
transparent. "
Really...? And cognitive bias suddenly does no
> And cognitive bias suddenly does not play a role anymore when you
score a good friend vs a hated enemy against a "list of
requirements"? It might look transparent but is not the tiniest bit
more fair.
Sure the biases will still be there, but the justification for the score
is written do
Excellent question Bruce!
I don't think there's any need to reinvent the wheel here; a number of
open-source initiatives seem to use scoring for evaluating proposals.
Chances are something from one of them can be borrowed.
Apache use it for scoring mentee proposals for GSOC:
https://communi
Jonathan,
Do you have a suggestion as to how the process can be improved?
Kind regards,
Bruce
Disclosure:
I was a member of the LOC for FOSS4G-2009.
I personally don’t have a problem with the process as is, but it may be
possible to improve things. That is, provided that we don’t make the jo
> Anyone can ask questions to the candidates.
Yes, they can (and yes, I have asked questions), but here's the thing:
The only people who actually matter are the people who vote. And we have
no idea what they vote (for the valid reason stated) or what their
criteria are for their vote (which is
Hi Jonathan,
I fully agree with Maria. I find your accusation very serious and I would like
to ask you to provide more information to support this. Maria's answer
described very well how the evaluation process goes. Please let us know what we
can do to improve the transparency.
Warm regards,
