Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-04 Thread Lluís Vicens
Al 02/10/12 16:16, En/na Barry Rowlingson ha escrit: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Adrian Custer wrote: Just picking the 'good' talks may lead the conference to once again have many talks about the same projects that have come to dominate and fewer talks from new talent. Therefore picking t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 2/10/2012 9:34 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: One thing I really disliked in the past is that the size of abstracts really differed and abstracts were sometimes really large. Please limit people to a small and to-the-point abstract, at least for the voting process. +1 It is important for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Adrian Custer wrote: > Just picking the 'good' talks may lead the conference to once again have > many talks about the same projects that have come to dominate and fewer > talks from new talent. > > Therefore picking talks only on the individual merits, whether of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread Adrian Custer
On 10/2/12 3:05 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: (snip) > it seems that we have two processes going on - what sounds like a good talk, and who sounds like a good speaker. (snip) Beyond that, there is the question of selecting between tal

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-02 Thread thomas bonfort
oun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on >> behalf of Paul Ramsey [pram...@opengeo.org] >> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:43 PM >> To: Volker Mische >> Cc: osgeo-discuss >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process >> >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Volker, On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Volker Mische wrote: > Hi Markus, > > does it means you against a public voting in general? Or against one > which includes names? Or do you like the idea of a public voting which > only contains the abstracts but nothing else? I never liked much the pu

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
On 10/02/2012 01:43 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Volker Mische wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the >> abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of >> adding some some big names to draw th

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Volker Mische wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the > abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of > adding some some big names to draw the expected attention to the > conference. They may ev

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
inward focused technical / > developer oriented presentations and outward focused policy / > success / benefit type good news presentations. > > > > -joel > > > > > > > > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [discuss-boun...@lists.osg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
One thing I really disliked in the past is that the size of abstracts really differed and abstracts were sometimes really large. Please limit people to a small and to-the-point abstract, at least for the voting process. Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS - http://osgis.nl On O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Volker Mische
On 10/02/2012 11:24 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter > wrote: > >> With my "simple maths" hat on: >> Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about, >> and provide a ranking. >> Total review time = 300 minutes = 6 hours. >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > With my "simple maths" hat on: > Expect 150+ abstracts. Each abstract takes say 2 mins to read, think about, > and provide a ranking. > Total review time = 300 minutes = 6 hours. > > Best not to complicate the review process thus increasing

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 2/10/2012 5:05 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: With my statistician hat on, and not speaking as a member of the committee, it seems that we have two processes going on - what sounds like a good talk, and who sounds like a good speaker. Maybe we should run two review systems - one with*just* nam

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-02 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote: > Agreed. > > Well said Cameron, with the aside that there may be an interesting talk from > a previously little known person. > > I suggest leaving this to the discretion of the LOC and interested parties > who subscribe to that year’s FOSS4G

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Bannerman
PM > To: Volker Mische > Cc: osgeo-discuss > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process > > I'm in favour too. It has potential, let's see how an anonymous > community process works in practice. > > P. > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:31

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
tations. -joel From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Paul Ramsey [pram...@opengeo.org] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:43 PM To: Volker Mische Cc: osgeo-discuss Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process I'm i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Schlagel, Joel D IWR
...@opengeo.org] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 2:43 PM To: Volker Mische Cc: osgeo-discuss Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process I'm in favour too. It has potential, let's see how an anonymous community process works in practice. P. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Vol

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Ramsey
I'm in favour too. It has potential, let's see how an anonymous community process works in practice. P. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Volker Mische wrote: > Hi all, > > On 10/01/2012 06:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: >> In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we >>

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Volker Mische
Hi all, On 10/01/2012 06:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we > intended to select presentations for the main track of the conference. > Some discussion amongst the committee has been going on, and we think > it necessary to informa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Mr. Puneet Kishor
On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > * some names are big draws, and it would be disappointing to not have > someone because their abstract wasn't that exciting. If they don't have anything interesting to say, they should not be "big draws." Selection should be on the "chara

[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G presentation review process

2012-10-01 Thread Barry Rowlingson
In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we intended to select presentations for the main track of the conference. Some discussion amongst the committee has been going on, and we think it necessary to informally poll the community to get a feel for what method is preferred