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Rochelle Grober wrote:
>
> Also, I'd like to suggest changing one word of the new text:  Change 
> evening to leveling -- it will be more clear for non native speakers 
> (translation won't try to make that "night" in some language) and the 
> dev mailing list and TC have been using the term "leveling the playing 
> field" recently, so it is familiar.
>
We have corrected the language on the Selection Process page, including 
edit suggested by Rocky, to indicate the new features we added for the 
voting tool:

https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/call-for-presentations/selection-process
>
> --Rocky
>
> *From:*Florian Haas [mailto:florian at hastexo.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 26, 2016 3:24 PM
> *To:* Erin Disney
> *Cc:* openstack-track-chairs at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack-track-chairs] "Voting now open" email: no 
> information about changes to the voting process?
>
> I think that addition is good (though not trying to preempt others), 
> but there's also a functional change which is that voting on a talk 
> doesn't advance you to the next, and it also seems that the keyboard 
> shortcuts are gone. Not sure if that trips others up; it did trip me 
> up a bit.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Florian
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:32 PM, 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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