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Agree at a first pass strategy.


  1.  There were so many talks riddled with errors and others that were irrelevant or incomplete. I know the foundation has tried to help with this through session submission webinars, etc… but I’m guessing that some of the submitters didn’t attend those. : )
  2.  It was amazing at how many talks were submitted to “Evaluating OpenStack” that had nothing to do with the topic.  Perhaps a final “ARE YOU SURE” step should be included. I could imagine hitting a button that says, “Your submission is about to be entered into the X track. The X track category should be relevant to this (explanation). Are you sure you want to proceed?” Then have buttons for “Show me other tracks” to review those categories in a pop up OR other include a button that that says “yes, this is the right track!”) I doubt folks are familiar with the track changes from summit to summit… or at least it appears that way.
  3.  There are SO many submissions that we’re doing our community a disservice, IMO, by having bad/incomplete tracks make it to voting. I’d love to go in and be able to collectively remove those with poor/weak/irrelevant abstracts. Doing so would mean less voting, which in turn could lead to more engagement, and better talks overall.

Just my 2cents…. And probably a result of waiting until the last minute to finalize track moves. Don’t judge me! Lolz.

Niki Acosta
Cisco Cloud Evangelist
(t) @nikiacosta


From: "SULLIVAN, BRYAN L" <bs3131 at att.com<mailto:bs3131 at att.com>>
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 10:57 PM
To: "Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com<mailto:Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com>" <Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com<mailto:Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com>>, "jimmy at openstack.org<mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>" <jimmy at openstack.org<mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>>, "Denys at gigaspaces.com<mailto:Denys at gigaspaces.com>" <Denys at gigaspaces.com<mailto:Denys at gigaspaces.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] [OpenStack-track-chair] OpenStack Track Chair App improvements suggestions

I agree with all Sean’s suggestions. It’s great that there’s so much speaker interest in OpenStack, but the huge list of talks is a barrier to triaging them at least. So some way of doing a quick pass and then iterating back over the ranks to sort them out, would be really helpful. Some radio buttons to rank them (3 levels is enough), and the ability to sort based on rank would be a great addition.

Barring that, just the ability to dump the entire list of talks for a category into a CSV file (rather than the current JSON ref’d by unique URLs) so we can import into excel etc – and apply our own assessment columns – would be a great fallback to building this into the tool. And save all that pointing and clicking.

Thanks,
Bryan Sullivan | AT&T

From: Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com<mailto:Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com> [mailto:Sean_McGinnis at DELL.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 1:32 PM
To: jimmy at openstack.org<mailto:jimmy at openstack.org>; Denys at gigaspaces.com<mailto:Denys at gigaspaces.com>
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] [OpenStack-track-chair] OpenStack Track Chair App improvements suggestions

I really like the idea of a Reviewed button to help tracking things, at least for my own organization.

I had another idea for helping on this quick first pass. In addition to being able to flag something to move it to another track, I think it could be useful to have something like a “relevance” or “ranking” selection scoped to each reviewer.

So to hopefully explain a little better – as I go down through the list of submissions checking if something is in the right track, I think it would be useful for my own purposes to give a quick initial gauge on whether I think the proposal might be good or not. Just having even three options along the lines of “Definitely”, “Neutral”, “No”. So if I see something has been submitted to the right track, and it looks like something I think would be good to have at the Summit, right away I could flag it as Definitely. If it’s in the right track but I can already tell it isn’t a good fit or isn’t something that would fit well in the Summit I could mark it as No.

Then if that sort the list of proposals, or even just color code them or something, that could help focus further review efforts around the ones that I feel add the most value and not bother looking through the ones again that I know aren’t worth it.

Or even simplify this even further and just have something like a Favorite star to mark the ones I would really like to see make it.

So mostly just brainstorming on ways to make this large list a little more manageable. Overall, I think the interface is really good and as a first time track chair I’ve found the process good so far. Just thought I would throw out some other ideas in case it piqued any interest.

Sean

From: Jimmy McArthur [mailto:jimmy at openstack.org]
Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 1:15 PM
To: Denys Makogon <Denys at gigaspaces.com<mailto:Denys at gigaspaces.com>>
Cc: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] [OpenStack-track-chair] OpenStack Track Chair App improvements suggestions

Thanks for the feedback, Denys. I've added your ideas, along with the others collected so far, to our web ticketing system. We'll do our best to review all of this and integrate some version of them ahead of Barcelona.

Cheers!
Jimmy

Denys Makogon wrote:

Hi there.



So, good question. "Review" button will cover next logic just as you mentioned, but it will push reviewers to leave a feedback for teammates. By use of such mechanism OpenStack committee will be sure that all submissions were reviewed by not just scrolling down a web page. This is what i have on my mind.

>From other perspective it would be really useful for Track Chair team, so each of teammates would understand if team decision on submission is approximately the same.

For now it doesn't seem to be good experience to see submissions that are not having any comments and it means two things - nobody reviewed it yet or it is good to go.

Kind regards,
Denys M.
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From: Todd Morey <todd at openstack.org><mailto:todd at openstack.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2016 6:19 PM
To: Denys Makogon
Cc: openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org>
Subject: Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] [OpenStack-track-chair] OpenStack Track Chair App improvements suggestions

Thanks! These are great suggestions, Denys. The only thing I don’t quite understand is the review button. Can you tell me what that would do? Mark the submission as reviewed by you or flag the submission for review by your fellow track chairs? The email notifications would be extremely handy.

Todd


On Feb 6, 2016, at 6:51 AM, Denys Makogon <Denys at gigaspaces.com<mailto:Denys at gigaspaces.com>> wrote:

Hello to All.

While doing submission reviews i found Track Chair App user experience may be improved.
First of all, i'd suggest to make next changes :

  *   modify submissions list by dividing it into three sections:

     *   new (which are not reviewed by you)
     *   reviewed (those that were already reviewed by you)
     *   moved (those that were moved from other tracks to yours)

  *   add "Review" button to each submission in order to make review process more consistent for Track Chairs
Next things is - email notifications. It would be very useful to get notification about:

  *   submission comments (it would be useful to have notification system similar to IRC, using Track Chair names and post a comment to whole team).
  *   moved submissions (for now, as i can see, we have to revisit portal in order to check if any submission was moved to the track that i am responsible for).
So, this are things that may improve user experience. Probably you have your own list of things that may improve review process.

Kind regards,
Denys Makogon

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