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Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> Hi Erin, Hi Florian,
>
> The first thing I noticed was the reference to Tokyo:
> "OpenStack community members are voting on presentations to be 
> presented at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan..."
Apologies. Thought we had fixed this early in the day, but it was in two 
places. Now pushed and working: 
https://direct.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/vote-for-speakers/
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 27 July 2016 at 07:32, Erin Disney <erin at openstack.org 
> <mailto:erin at openstack.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hey Florian-
>
>     We appreciate the feedback, totally open to updating site with
>     more context on intention surrounding the voting change.
>
>     Below please find proposed new copy for the Selection Process
>     information page you referenced in your email. Know there was an
>     extensive back and forth over the mailing lists back in May, but
>     the unique URLs was the only real change to the process this
>     round. Let me know if you have additional information you think we
>     should include here.
>     /Please note: For the first time, unique URLs to submissions have
>     been removed for this Summit./
>     /
>     /
>     /This is in response to Community and Track Chair feedback. The
>     hope is that by removing dedicated URLs we are //promoting
>     fairness across all submissions by preventing// ballot stuffing
>     and social media spam, evening the //playing field for people new
>     to the community or from smaller companies. /
>
>     Let me know, thanks again!
>
>     Erin Disney
>     OpenStack Marketing
>     erin at openstack.org <mailto:erin at openstack.org>
>
>>     On Jul 26, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com
>>     <mailto:florian at hastexo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Obligatory apology for using HTML, in order to faithfully
>>     reproduce the email blast message.
>>
>>     I wonder how others feel about this. We had a lengthy discussion
>>     about tweaks and optimizations to the voting process on this list
>>     a while ago, but the "voting now open" email that just went out
>>     (see below) has no mention of any change to the voting mechanics
>>     (i.e. *how* voting works, as opposed to *why* we do it).
>>
>>     Neither does
>>     https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process,
>>     which the email refers to (it only talks about news to the
>>     submission process, not to the voting).
>>
>>     I guess it's probably to late to stop the email blast. But I
>>     wonder if others agree that it's probably a good idea to amend
>>     the selection process info page?
>>
>>     Case in point:
>>     https://twitter.com/0x44/status/757990623668375552 (would be
>>     great to explain the intention, which was one of the things we
>>     did discuss here)
>>
>>     What do others think?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Florian
>>
>>
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>>     Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM
>>     Subject: Community Voting NOW OPEN- OpenStack Summit Barcelona
>>     To: florian at hastexo.com <mailto:florian at hastexo.com>
>>
>>
>>     Community voting is now open for OpenStack Summit Barcelona!
>>     Community voting is now open for OpenStack Summit Barcelona!
>>
>>
>>     <https://t.e2ma.net/click/upxxn/uhzxis/ul69ze>
>>
>>
>>     *Session voting is now open for the October 2016 OpenStack Summit
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>     submissions have been removed for this Summit. /
>>
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