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One thought from my end...

Knowing how the OpenStack Foundation values diversity, I was surprised to see that the Community Building track was comprised of 4 men as track chairs. It seemed a bit ironic to have the 4 of us debating the various panels on diversity that were submitted for consideration to the CB track.

Diversity starts at home. :)

My $.02.


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From: "Yih Leong, Sun." <yihleong at gmail.com<mailto:yihleong at gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 5:27 AM
To: Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org<mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>>
Cc: "openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback

Very nice tool and 'evolving' over the past few summits.

Would be great if i can see a summary of affiliated companies of the proposals that I/we have selected at the Selection/Team list.
e.g.
Track A: A total of 20 companies are selected
Company X: 6 sessions are selected in Track A
Company Y: 6 sessions are selected in Track A
Company Z: 8 sessions are selected in Track A


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jimmy McArthur <jimmy at openstack.org<mailto: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<mailto: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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