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For my part, as a security track chair, I don't see a huge value in the voting system, it simply doesn't scale and can easily be 'gamed' by organisations large enough.

We do use the votes as guidance but honestly I'm not sure that's the best way of doing things. I'd far rather see a more in depth abstract process, with more academic abstracts that go into far more detail and with far more rigor than we see today. This would hopefully dissuade many of the summit tourists (chancers who submit clickbait talks).

-Rob

From: Egle Sigler [mailto:ushnishtha at hotmail.com]
Sent: 17 August 2015 19:21
To: Stefano Maffulli; Niki Acosta nikacost
Cc: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] the meaning of the 'How to contribute' track

Hello Stefano,

"I always considered the voting process as a marketing tool for the event, a community ritual, a celebration of openstack community as a whole and not something that the selection committee should use. I find looking at votes extremely unfair to the submitters and diminishing of the selection committee's role, too. IMO a good committee should evaluate based on quality of content relative to the objectives for that specific summit (overall focus, location), and totally ignore the popularity of their proposers (or their employees).
"

While I agree with you on some of the points, ignoring voting would essentially remove community from providing any input into the selection. Are you suggesting getting rid of voting all together?

Thank you,
Egle

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:01:28 -0700
From: stefano.maffulli at dreamhost.com<mailto:stefano.maffulli at dreamhost.com>
To: nikacost at cisco.com<mailto:nikacost at cisco.com>
CC: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] the meaning of the 'How to contribute' track
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Niki Acosta (nikacost) <nikacost at cisco.com<mailto:nikacost at cisco.com>> wrote:
We decided as a group to move those to the How to Contribute track with
the following rationale:

Thanks for sharing the reasoning behind your choice.

While we liked The Critic as Contributor as a talk, there were few votes
on this talk and the score ranked lower compared to others.
 [...]
We did our best to balance vote scoring with what we felt would
have broad community appeal.
[...]
The fact that you used votes as a deciding factor, even if only as the last one, saddens me. I see votes as results of a popularity contest and if used for anything, they dramatically damage the minorities that are not on twitter, the people who are shy by nature and those working for companies that don't have a strong social media presence (or don't use it at all). In fact, I'd argue that the results of the votes should be even hidden in the track chair UI.

I always considered the voting process as a marketing tool for the event, a community ritual, a celebration of openstack community as a whole and not something that the selection committee should use. I find looking at votes extremely unfair to the submitters and diminishing of the selection committee's role, too. IMO a good committee should evaluate based on quality of content relative to the objectives for that specific summit (overall focus, location), and totally ignore the popularity of their proposers (or their employees).
I understand you had other priorities for you track, that's fair.  Selections are always hard, we all had a lot more proposals than available slots. I am only commenting on your mention of the results of the popularity contest. I wish there were clear and public guidelines on the purpose of the voting process.
/stef

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