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Hi Erin, Hi Florian,

The first thing I noticed was the reference to Tokyo:
"OpenStack community members are voting on presentations to be presented at
the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan..."
:-)

Cheers,

On 27 July 2016 at 07:32, Erin Disney <erin at openstack.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> On Jul 26, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:
>
> Obligatory apology for using HTML, in order to faithfully reproduce the
> email blast message.
>
> 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).
>
> Neither does
> 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 (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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>
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