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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Nick, and others:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">It is my understanding that the reason why we (me included) exported the data into a spreadsheet was because we wanted to do
something that we couldn’t do in the tool.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Before making ‘export’ a feature, I’d rather see the things that we wanted to do assessed as change requests, and if enough
people want to do that thing, maybe it’ll become a part of the tool.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Ideally, I would like it to be unnecessary to export the data; that would mean that the tool had all the capabilities that
we wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I realize that this is a very simplistic, and idealistic view of the world, but that would be both simple, and ideal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">-amrith<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nick
Chase [mailto:nchase@mirantis.com] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:54 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Amrith Kumar <amrith@tesora.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Actually the last two summits tracks I've worked with have finished up in spreadsheets, where we've organized submissions by topic and marked off who voted for each.
It really made the final processing easier. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I'd love to see a simple "export" function so we don't wind up doing it by hand.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">---- Nick<br>
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On Thursday, August 25, 2016, Amrith Kumar <<a href="mailto:amrith@tesora.com">amrith@tesora.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">On the whole, I think the process and the tool were fine, there
were some hiccups that you have already identified.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I found the user interface (specifically the two pane format and
the sizing requirement) to be a little troublesome. Eventually I just grabbed the json off the interface and populated a spreadsheet and that worked out much easier.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Why was that?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">I wanted to tag each of the 93 talks with a bunch of tags that I
found to be useful, things like the names of the projects covered, sales-pitch, customer-story, performance, … and so on, and later filter talks based on those tags.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">So, if the next iteration of the tool had a way in which each chair
could tag talks using an arbitrary (private) set of tags, that would be nifty.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Kunzmann, Gerald [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com');" target="_blank">kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 25, 2016 3:22 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org');" target="_blank">
openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">+1 nice tool.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Would be great to have a sort function e.g. by “community
vote”.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Gerald</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Travis McPeak [<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','travis.mcpeak@gmail.com');" target="_blank">mailto:travis.mcpeak@gmail.com</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Donnerstag, 25. August 2016 02:02<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Christopher Aedo <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','doc@aedo.net');" target="_blank">doc@aedo.net</a>>;
<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org');" target="_blank">
openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">+1 great tool and easy process overall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, 4:47 PM Christopher Aedo <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','doc@aedo.net');" target="_blank">doc@aedo.net</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you for all the hard work you've put into this tool (and all the<br>
other OpenStack bits you're always improving.) This was my second<br>
time around and I thought the tool worked great - looking forward to<br>
seeing even more improvements for Boston!<br>
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Thank you Jimmy!<br>
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-Christopher<br>
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jimmy McArthur <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jimmy@openstack.org');" target="_blank">jimmy@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> All -<br>
><br>
> Thanks again for your hard (and quick!) work on the OpenStack Barcelona<br>
> Summit Track selections. You all did an amazing job and we're really<br>
> grateful to each of you.<br>
><br>
> I took notes of feedback, but please feel free to add to the list if you<br>
> feel I've missed something:<br>
><br>
> Better ability for Track Chairs to merge<br>
><br>
> Option to email all speakers from one or more presentations<br>
> Ability for Speakers to submit/propose a new Title / Abstract as an<br>
> attachment or within the thread<br>
> Track Chairs ability to deactivate merged talks, and save one with new<br>
> abstract (or merge into a new record so we don't taint the originals)<br>
><br>
> Email issues<br>
><br>
> Track conversations with users within the Track Chair tool i/o just via<br>
> email. Could also consider using ZenDesk API for this?<br>
> There was a problem with Sendgrid API this go round, so there were just<br>
> generally problems. They were:<br>
><br>
> No CC of other track chairs<br>
> Reply address was <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','noreply@openstack.org');" target="_blank">
noreply@openstack.org</a> i/o the ZenDesk ticket<br>
> Adding name of Presentation and other details automatically within the email<br>
> "Track chair XYZ has a question about your presentation: ABCD"<br>
> Email all speakers i/o just one<br>
><br>
> Need the option back of being able to compare everyone's list side by side<br>
><br>
> The new method of using the dropdown makes it difficult for the team to<br>
> compare selected talks<br>
> A way to auto-select common talks for placement in the team section would be<br>
> cool, or at least a way to quickly view that list, along with the # of team<br>
> members that selected each talk<br>
><br>
> An option for a Track to "Close" their selections<br>
><br>
> Send an email to track chairs list<br>
> Mark Track as "Closed" for non-admins<br>
><br>
> Another suggestion for the Boston CFP process might be to consider separate<br>
> user and developer sub-tracks. For example. What might be considered a How<br>
> To/Best Practice for developers might be completely irrelevant to users.<br>
> We at Dev Tools track found out that there are a lot of drafts related to<br>
> the CI/CD and Testing processes. Seems reasonable to add such a track<br>
> (Deployment and Testing) as an option for the next summit. What do you<br>
> think?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thank you again!<br>
> Jimmy<br>
><br>
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