<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Amrith Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amrith@tesora.com" target="_blank">amrith@tesora.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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">On the whole, I think the process and the tool were fine, there were some hiccups that you have already identified.<u></u><u></u></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">I found the user interface (specifically the two pane format and the sizing requirement) to be a little troublesome. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>+1, I would've also preferred a single pane as well. One possible way I could see it being done would be to leave the keyboard shortcuts intact and change the list of sessions that is currently on the right pane to a drop-down list instead? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">Eventually
I just grabbed the json off the interface and populated a spreadsheet and that worked out much easier.</span></font> </p></div></div></blockquote><div>I did a similar exercise, the main reason I did it was to be able to compare metrics/attributes for the sessions in our track and to be able to sort the data as well. The ability to select a metric/attribute and then be able to generate a list view sorted by that attribute/metric would eliminate my personal needs for a spreadsheet. If this is too complex then adding an export option for tracks might be a good option as well.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></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">Why was that?<u></u><u></u></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">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> </p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></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">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.<u></u><u></u></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</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would also prefer an option to remove/delete prior comments on a session. We use comments for different purposes in the various phases and the ability to clear comments (not automatically though) would be good to help track chairs remove prior comments (e.g. someone might have said "+1" to keep a talk in their track and in the selection phase that "+1" could seem confusing).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Consolas"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d">
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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"> Kunzmann,
Gerald [mailto:<a href="mailto:kunzmann@docomolab-euro.com" target="_blank">kunzmann@docomolab-<wbr>euro.com</a>] <br>
<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="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-track-chairs@lists.<wbr>openstack.org</a></span></font></p><div><div class="h5"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback<u></u><u></u></font></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">+1 nice tool.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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”.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Gerald<u></u><u></u></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"> Travis
McPeak [<a href="mailto:travis.mcpeak@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:travis.mcpeak@gmail.<wbr>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="mailto:doc@aedo.net" target="_blank">doc@aedo.net</a>>;
<a href="mailto:openstack-track-chairs@lists.openstack.org" target="_blank">openstack-track-chairs@lists.<wbr>openstack.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] Track Chair Feedback<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">+1 great tool and easy process overall.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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="mailto:doc@aedo.net" target="_blank">doc@aedo.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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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On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Jimmy McArthur <<a href="mailto:jimmy@openstack.org" target="_blank">jimmy@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> All -<br>
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> 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>
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> I took notes of feedback, but please feel free to add to the list if you<br>
> feel I've missed something:<br>
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> Better ability for Track Chairs to merge<br>
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> 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>
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> Email issues<br>
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> 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>
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> No CC of other track chairs<br>
> Reply address was <a href="mailto: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>
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> Need the option back of being able to compare everyone's list side by side<br>
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> 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>
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> An option for a Track to "Close" their selections<br>
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> Send an email to track chairs list<br>
> Mark Track as "Closed" for non-admins<br>
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> 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>
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> Thank you again!<br>
> Jimmy<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div style="font-size:small">Shamail Tahir</div><div style="font-size:small">t: @ShamailXD</div><div style="font-size:small">tz: Eastern Time</div></div></div></div></div>
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