Open Stack

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amrith Kumar" <amrith at tesora.com>
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org, "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> 
> I attended a talk by Mark Baker today (http://sched.co/2qbJ) entitled "The
> OpenStack Summit Talk Selection Process is Broken" and I think it was an
> informative session.
> 
> The statistics presented indicated that just under a third of the talks
> submitted got accepted at this summit and that is a very healthy ratio and
> that's a great thing.
> 
> One thing that was brought up at the talk was that there was no formal
> feedback mechanism about talks and keynotes at Summit. Is there any way in
> which we can get a feedback mechanism for the talks and sessions at this
> summit up and running? It would be a valuable piece of information if we
> could get it.
> 
> Any thoughts on how this can be done? There were 296 sessions; we obviously
> know the names of the sessions and the speakers. Does our scheduling
> mechanism have a 'ratings module' that can be turned on? Is there some other
> quick and dirty mechanism we can use?

For Red Hat Summit we have something like this built into the official app and speakers are encouraged to remind people to use it to submit feedback at the end. Users have the choice of just leaving a rating in a couple of categories or also entering written comments. I have found the feedback quite useful in the past for helping me to better target the presentations I do at that particular event and think it would be great if there was something like this for OpenStack summit.

Thanks,

Steve