<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Jonathan Gershater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgershat@redhat.com" target="_blank">jgershat@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">hi<br><span style="text-decoration:underline">Vendor submissions</span><br>I am seeing quite a few vendor type pitches with lots of community votes, is that a case of a vendor having their employees and friends vote for their session? <br>Generally, we should not admit vendor pitches to summit, correct?<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I am seeing the same. After looking at the submissions, it's fairly obvious which companies did the best campaigning for their submissions. Keep in mind the voting is only part of how you select sessions for your track. Use your judgement to create an interesting track which you feel represents the space you have well. In other words, don't just use the top sessions with the most votes.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Business level submissions</span><br>My understanding is that openstack summit wants to de-emphasize technical sessions and attract a business audience, correct? <br>So should we look for business-level submissions in our tracks?<br><br>thank you<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><div><span name="x"></span><div>Jonathan <br></div></div></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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