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Thank you for all the hard work you've put into this tool (and all the
other OpenStack bits you're always improving.)  This was my second
time around and I thought the tool worked great - looking forward to
seeing even more improvements for Boston!

Thank you Jimmy!

-Christopher

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org> wrote:
> All -
>
> Thanks again for your hard (and quick!) work on the OpenStack Barcelona
> Summit Track selections. You all did an amazing job and we're really
> grateful to each of you.
>
> I took notes of feedback, but please feel free to add to the list if you
> feel I've missed something:
>
> Better ability for Track Chairs to merge
>
> Option to email all speakers from one or more presentations
> Ability for Speakers to submit/propose a new Title / Abstract as an
> attachment or within the thread
> Track Chairs ability to deactivate merged talks, and save one with new
> abstract (or merge into a new record so we don't taint the originals)
>
> Email issues
>
> Track conversations with users within the Track Chair tool i/o just via
> email. Could also consider using ZenDesk API for this?
> There was a problem with Sendgrid API this go round, so there were just
> generally problems. They were:
>
> No CC of other track chairs
> Reply address was noreply at openstack.org i/o the ZenDesk ticket
> Adding name of Presentation and other details automatically within the email
> "Track chair XYZ has a question about your presentation: ABCD"
> Email all speakers i/o just one
>
> Need the option back of being able to compare everyone's list side by side
>
> The new method of using the dropdown makes it difficult for the team to
> compare selected talks
> A way to auto-select common talks for placement in the team section would be
> cool, or at least a way to quickly view that list, along with the # of team
> members that selected each talk
>
> An option for a Track to "Close" their selections
>
> Send an email to track chairs list
> Mark Track as "Closed" for non-admins
>
> Another suggestion for the Boston CFP process might be to consider separate
> user and developer sub-tracks. For example. What might be considered a How
> To/Best Practice for developers might be completely irrelevant to users.
> We at Dev Tools track found out that there are a lot of drafts related to
> the CI/CD and Testing processes. Seems reasonable to add such a track
> (Deployment and Testing) as an option for the next summit. What do you
> think?
>
>
> Thank you again!
> Jimmy
>
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