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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Because we had the conversation on this mailing list, I wanted to provide
> a quick update about soliciting attendee feedback on speaking sessions.
>
> I mentioned before that we are building out a survey tool in our new
> scheduling platform and mobile app, which will be available for the Austin
> Summit, but didn’t have a good solution for the Tokyo Summit….
>
> Now we've come up with a decent hack for Tokyo! We worked with the Sched
> team to integrate a “feedback” link in the mobile app that uses simple
> Wufoo forms on the backend. It’s not the most beautiful solution, but we’re
> happy to start gathering information :) We’ll encourage attendees to give
> us feedback on the sessions they attend, and will of course encourage
> speakers to promote it for their sessions.
>
> Just wanted to share the update so you are all aware and can help spread
> the word…hopefully it will give track chairs for the Austin Summit more
> information to make decisions.
>
> Cheers,
> Lauren
>

​That's awesome Lauren!!  Thanks for the update!​


>
>
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org> wrote:
>
> Oh sorry, we want to roll out the tools for Austin, but the hope is to
> have them ready for testing the end of this year or early next.
>
> I’m hoping to recruit some folks from the community to help with that
> testing in Tokyo :)
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Barrett, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> Lauren – Understand the short path to Tokyo. It sounded like a Beta was
> planned for Austin (I might’ve read that wrong) and I was wondering if it’s
> possible to get past beta for Austin.
> Thanks
> Carol
>
> *From:* Lauren Sell [mailto:lauren at openstack.org <lauren at openstack.org>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:23 AM
> *To:* Barrett, Carol L; John Griffith
> *Cc:* openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* RE: [Openstack-track-chairs] the meaning of the 'How to
> contribute' track
>
>
> No, it's not possible to have the new summit tools ready for Tokyo (we
> would already need to be using the scheduling tool), but I'm happy to
> pursue other ways to gather feedback in Tokyo like we're discussing.
>
> On August 18, 2015 9:18:00 AM "Barrett, Carol L" <
> carol.l.barrett at intel.com> wrote:
>
> I think any mechanism for feedback would be v valuable. Is there any way
> to accelerate the plans for Austin (it’s a year out!) to get this in place
> for all keynotes/sessions?
> Thanks
> Carol
>
> *From:* John Griffith [mailto:john.griffith at solidfire.com
> <john.griffith at solidfire.com>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:48 AM
> *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 9:38 AM, Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 18, 2015, at 7:55 AM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> ​Awesome!!  Thanks Claire, I'll save my views on "votes" for the survey :)
>
> Also, rumor has it that we may actually be able to try and institute a
> feedback mechanism for the attendees this time around?  In my opinion that
> could be an extremely valuable tool.
>
> Anyway... thanks!
> John​
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Unfortunately, we won’t have a new tool to collect session feedback for
> the Tokyo Summit, but we are developing a new Summit scheduling tool and
> mobile app that we’re hoping to roll out in Austin, which would allow
> attendees to provide session feedback via the mobile app. We’re planning to
> host a feedback session in Tokyo to review the new tools and recruit some
> beta testers.
>
> In the meantime, one option for Tokyo could be to require each speaker to
> post a slide with a unique URL to a survey at the end of their
> presentation. It would require quite a bit of manual work to set up and
> collect the results, but it’s possible if we think it’s worth doing. We’re
> open to ideas.
>
> Thanks!
> Lauren
>
> ​Hi Lauren,
>
> Bummer.... but Austin isn't far away!!  I kinda like the idea of setting
> something up manually this time around, as a speaker I certainly think it
> would be worth doing even just for my own personal growth and improvement.
> I don't know if others feel strongly enough about making it part of the
> required work for presenting or not, but I'd certainly be willing to put
> forth the effort.​  Keep me posted, and if volunteers are needed to head
> up the effort I'd be happy to participate.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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