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<div>My biggest gripe is the number of product-specific submissions that have little or no benefit to the greater community and/or a majority of attendees. </div>
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<div>Would love to be able to rate a session (as a track chair and/or a voter) on a "product pitch” scale. I think splitting out the summit from conference will help a little… </div>
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<div>OR, maybe a "product/solutions showcase" track would be beneficial to separate out sales pitches from community/code-oriented topics. I guess we kinda do that now with sponsored tracks…. But not every company can afford a sponsored track. :)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Lauren Sell <<a href="mailto:lauren@openstack.org">lauren@openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 3:41 PM<br>
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I had the same impression…the only sessions that may have been dropped before voting were incomplete or duplicates.
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<div class="">Thanks for throwing out the idea, Gary. I hadn’t heard that exact proposal before, and it’s definitely interesting.</div>
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<div class="">I made this suggestion once before but it didn’t get much traction so I’ll give it another shot. Instead of exposing the community to, in the case of the ATX summit, 1,300 talks for open voting, what if the track chairs did a first pass on sifting
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