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All -<br>
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Thanks again for your hard (and quick!) work on the OpenStack Barcelona
Summit Track selections. You all did an amazing job and we're really
grateful to each of you.<br>
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I took notes of feedback, but please feel free to add to the list if you
feel I've missed something:<br>
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font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside
none; background: transparent;">Better ability for Track Chairs to merge<ul
style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px;
outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style:
none; background: transparent;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style: disc outside none; background: transparent;">Option to email
all speakers from one or more presentations</li><li style="margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
transparent;">Ability for Speakers to submit/propose a new Title /
Abstract as an attachment or within the thread</li><li style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
transparent;">Track Chairs ability to deactivate merged talks, and save
one with new abstract (or merge into a new record so we don't taint the
originals)</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; outline: 0px none; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style: disc outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
transparent;">Email issues</li>
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0px none; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc
outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Track
conversations with users within the Track Chair tool i/o just via email.
Could also consider using ZenDesk API for this?</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline:
0px none; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc
outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">There
was a problem with Sendgrid API this go round, so there were just
generally problems. They were:</li>
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outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">No CC
of other track chairs</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline:
0px none; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc
outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Reply
address was <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:noreply@openstack.org">noreply@openstack.org</a> i/o the ZenDesk ticket</li>
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0px none; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc
outside none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Adding
name of Presentation and other details automatically within the email
"Track chair XYZ has a question about your presentation: ABCD"</li>
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font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside
none; background: transparent;">Email all speakers i/o just one<br>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;
font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside
none; background: transparent;">Need the option back of being able to
compare everyone's list side by side<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
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style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size:
11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none;
background: transparent;">The new method of using the dropdown makes it
difficult for the team to compare selected talks</li><li style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
transparent;">A way to auto-select common talks for placement in the
team section would be cool, or at least a way to quickly view that list,
along with the # of team members that selected each talk</li></ul></li><li
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size:
11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none;
background: transparent;">An option for a Track to "Close" their
selections<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px;
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list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li style="margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
transparent;">Send an email to track chairs list</li><li style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
transparent;">Mark Track as "Closed" for non-admins</li></ul></li><li
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size:
11px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none;
background: transparent;">Another suggestion for the Boston CFP process
might be to consider separate user and developer sub-tracks. For
example. What might be considered a How To/Best Practice for developers
might be completely irrelevant to users. </li><li style="margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: 0px none; font-size: 11px;
vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc outside none; background:
none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">We at Dev Tools track found out
that there are a lot of drafts related to the CI/CD and Testing
processes. Seems reasonable to add such a track (Deployment and Testing)
as an option for the next summit. What do you think?<br>
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Thank you again!<br>
Jimmy<br>
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