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+1 - we did something almost identical for the security track.

-Rob

On 19/08/2015 00:55, "Cohen, Beth F (Beth)" <beth.cohen at verizon.com> wrote:

>Folks -
>My team created a spreadsheet to help with the decision process, which I
>have included here for your edification.  If something along these lines
>could be made part of the tool that would be ideal.  I just used Excel,
>but I have also done something similar in Google Docs.
>
>Let me add my two cents on the session selection process.  While the
>voting portion is increasingly unwieldy -- mostly because of the number
>of sessions that we need to vote for is increasing exponentially it seems
>-- I do not think we should get rid of it.  Maybe modify it, allow people
>to vote for categories for example to get a sense of the level of
>interest in various tracks.  As was mentioned by others, I think it helps
>foster a sense of community, even if some of the votes are obviously
>rigged.
>
>As a track chair, I let the number of votes sway a decision, but it is
>just one of several criteria.  Choosing between two sessions that are
>similar and one has many votes and the other has none, that helps me
>decide.  Sessions with no or few votes, unless they are compelling are
>going to go into the slush pile.  Sessions with little detail or no bios
>of the presenters, are going to get dropped.
>
>I would like to touch on the issue of panels.  I like large panels, I
>think they have a dynamic that is lacking with a panel with 3-4 people on
>them.  You need a good moderator to keep the panel from getting
>off-track, but that is not difficult to achieve.  On the Telco track, we
>decided to get around the problem of the many NFV sessions that were
>obviously product presentations, by creating a panel made up of people
>from the various vendors, to talk about NFV.  I think this is far more
>interesting to our community and none of the vendors could have been able
>to create this panel on their own.  We are also doing the same thing for
>Telco users. 
>
>--
>Beth Cohen
>Mobile: 617-721-7256
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:justin at erenkrantz.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 4:41 PM
>To: Lauren Sell
>Cc: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org
>Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] the meaning of the 'How to
>contribute' track
>
>On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org> wrote:
>>> - Limited speakers per talk. Again, 2-3 would be a reasonable limit,
>>> possibly 1 more for hands-on labs.
>>
>> What about panels, or do you just dislike panels in general?
>
>I would suggest that the submission format for panels be enhanced.  We
>had a number of panels proposed in our track, but it was very hard to
>figure out who was in them and what the topics were.
>
>All in all, the experience was fine - kudos to the team working on the
>tools!  The two features I'd like to see is sorting by votes and marking
>talks to be filtered after we've triaged them.
>
>Cheers.  -- justin
>
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