[Chicago] selecting talks Re: [PyCON-Organizers] Talk slot durations (was: FWD: Re: Pycon disappointment)

[Carl Karsten]

Atul Varma wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Also, being a gamer, I thought of the voting system with different
>> criteria for giving voters more points to vote on talks. and talks
>> would have different costs for voting. by analogy, designing stats and
>> leveling up characters.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure if this idea is along the same lines as what you're saying
> here, but what if the way to choose what talks get busted is based purely on
> a completely democratic voting process within the community?  For instance,
> once all the talks are turned in, they're all publicly viewable on the PyCon
> website; they could even have comment threads where discussion could take
> place, e.g. potential audience members could ask the potential presenter in
> advance about their proposal, people who have heard the presenter talk
> before could provide comments, etc.  Then each community member is given a
> pool of, say, 50 points, that they can distribute between proposals however
> they like (or a different voting system could be used, I dunno).
> 
> Anyways, maybe I just repeated your idea using different words, I'm not
> sure... But it does seem like a community-driven conference could use a
> slightly more community-driven mechanism for selecting talks.
> 

+1


Carl K