----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Griffin" <matt.griffin at percona.com> > To: "Maish Saidel-Keesing" <maishsk+openstack at maishsk.com> > > Here's a great presentation from the Women of OpenStack team about how to > write a better speaker proposal and the voting process. > > Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFYNZ4jqik > Slides: > http://www.slideshare.net/openstack/designing-an-openstack-summit-session-submission-for-success > > Best, > Matt The above provides good tips on enhancing your chances of getting a proposal selected but doesn't really address the core of the questions Maish was posing, which relate to the transparency of the selection process both in terms of the voting process and results publication (or more accurately lack thereof) and the subsequent impact of the track committees on the final selections (also unknown). This is without endeavouring to also consider how realistic it is to pick out your preferred sessions from 1000+ submissions. -Steve > maishsk+openstack at maishsk.com> wrote: > > > Hello all. > > > > CFP is upon us, and thereafter will be a period of voting for the sessions. > > > > What is the purpose of the voting period? Is it for the Foundation to > > gauge what sessions are more popular? > > How is this measured? > > What weight does the popularity have in deciding if a session is > > accepted or not? > > > > And most importantly - are the results of the voting process publicly > > available - if so - where? > > And if not - then why not? > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Maish Saidel-Keesing > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > > Unsubscribe : > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > -- Steve Gordon, RHCE Sr. Technical Product Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform