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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If this was an academic full paper submission, I would say +1 (although many negative side effects will be still there). But in this type of submissions, it
is not hard to generate a great abstract without actual deliverance. So, I would vote -2 for blind or double blind review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Arkady_Kanevsky@DELL.com [mailto:Arkady_Kanevsky@DELL.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 25, 2016 6:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> yihleong@gmail.com; jimmy@openstack.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For reviews and acceptance it would be better to have blind review.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">No authors names, not affiliation. Just on the merit of submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Then when submission is accepted then post names and affiliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Yih Leong, Sun. [<a href="mailto:yihleong@gmail.com">mailto:yihleong@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 25, 2016 7:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jimmy McArthur <<a href="mailto:jimmy@openstack.org">jimmy@openstack.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very nice tool and 'evolving' over the past few summits.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would be great if i can see a summary of affiliated companies of the proposals that I/we have selected at the Selection/Team list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">e.g. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Track A: A total of 20 companies are selected<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Company X: 6 sessions are selected in Track A<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Company Y: 6 sessions are selected in Track A<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Company Z: 8 sessions are selected in Track A<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jimmy McArthur <<a href="mailto:jimmy@openstack.org" target="_blank">jimmy@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Better ability for Track Chairs to merge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Option to email all speakers from one or more presentations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Ability for Speakers to submit/propose a new Title / Abstract as an attachment or within the thread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Email issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Track conversations with users within the Track Chair tool i/o just via email. Could also consider using ZenDesk API for this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">There was a problem with Sendgrid API this go round, so there were just generally problems. They were:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">No CC of other track chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Reply address was
<a href="mailto:noreply@openstack.org" target="_blank">noreply@openstack.org</a> i/o the ZenDesk ticket<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Adding name of Presentation and other details automatically within the email "Track chair XYZ has a question about your presentation: ABCD"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Email all speakers i/o just one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Need the option back of being able to compare everyone's list side by side<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The new method of using the dropdown makes it difficult for the team to compare selected talks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">An option for a Track to "Close" their selections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Send an email to track chairs list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Mark Track as "Closed" for non-admins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you again!<span style="color:#888888"><br>
<span class="hoenzb">Jimmy</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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