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<div>As a community member and track chair, I see pluses and minuses. </div>
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<div>And, there is a certain irony that, in an election year, we are considering removing community voting from the session selection process. :) </div>
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<div>Imagine getting stuck with [insert name of candidate you hate the most here] without having the opportunity to vote.</div>
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<div>To be honest, I can’t say I’d be in favor of completely removing the voting by community members. That being said, I do think the session selection process could use an overhaul.</div>
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<div>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 through
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<div>Right now the pre-voting review by the track chairs is just to move talks to other tracks if it’s believed it belongs somewhere else. There’s no dropping talks at that point.</div>
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<div>Just a suggestion. </div>
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<div>As a track chair, I did find the voting results somewhat helpful in making my final track choices.</div>
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<div>My gut tells me that the community doesn’t want the Summit agenda set by just a few people. They'll want to have a voice.</div>
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<div>My $.02.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Claire Massey <<a href="mailto:claire@openstack.org">claire@openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 2:45 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Openstack-track-chairs] Proposal to remove session voting on Community mailing list<br>
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<div class="">We just sent and email to the Community mailing list to propose the removal of session voting for the Barcelona Summit. </div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2016-May/001503.html" class="">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2016-May/001503.html</a></div>
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<div class="">If you’d like to chime in, please join the conversation over on that mailing list.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks,</div>
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