<div dir="ltr"><div>Obligatory apology for using HTML, in order to faithfully reproduce the email blast message.</div><div><br></div>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).<div><br></div><div>Neither does <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process">https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process</a>, which the email refers to (it only talks about news to the submission process, not to the voting).</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Case in point:</div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/0x44/status/757990623668375552">https://twitter.com/0x44/status/757990623668375552</a> (would be great to explain the intention, which was one of the things we did discuss here)<br></div><div><br></div><div>What do others think?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Florian</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">OpenStack Summit Team</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:summit@openstack.org">summit@openstack.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM<br>Subject: Community Voting NOW OPEN- OpenStack Summit Barcelona<br>To: <a href="mailto:florian@hastexo.com">florian@hastexo.com</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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