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Hey Florian- 

We appreciate the feedback, totally open to updating site with more context on intention surrounding the voting change. 

Below please find proposed new copy for the Selection Process information page you referenced in your email. Know there was an extensive back and forth over the mailing lists back in May, but the unique URLs was the only real change to the process this round. Let me know if you have additional information you think we should include here. 
 
Please note: For the first time, unique URLs to submissions have been removed for this Summit.

This is in response to Community and Track Chair feedback. The hope is that by removing dedicated URLs we are promoting fairness across all submissions by preventing ballot stuffing and social media spam, evening the playing field for people new to the community or from smaller companies.  
 
Let me know, thanks again! 

Erin Disney
OpenStack Marketing
erin at openstack.org <mailto:erin at openstack.org>
> On Jul 26, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:
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> Obligatory apology for using HTML, in order to faithfully reproduce the email blast message.
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> I wonder how others feel about this. We had a lengthy discussion about tweaks and optimizations to the voting process on this list a while ago, but the "voting now open" email that just went out (see below) has no mention of any change to the voting mechanics (i.e. *how* voting works, as opposed to *why* we do it).
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> Neither does https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process <https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process>, which the email refers to (it only talks about news to the submission process, not to the voting).
> 
> I guess it's probably to late to stop the email blast. But I wonder if others agree that it's probably a good idea to amend the selection process info page?
> 
> Case in point:
> https://twitter.com/0x44/status/757990623668375552 <https://twitter.com/0x44/status/757990623668375552> (would be great to explain the intention, which was one of the things we did discuss here)
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Cheers,
> Florian
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