Hello Terry, Terry Jones <terry@...> writes:
Last night I got a couple of PyCon talks rejected, and someone else sent me a rejection email they'd received. I wasn't surprised at the rejections, but I was quite surprised that many of the review comments were at least in part based on the presenter (sometimes the incorrectly assumed presenter) instead of on the proposed talk.
I am not part of the review board, and neither have I tried to submit a talk, and I'm not even sure this is the right mailing-list, but I found it interesting to read your personal report of your attempts to submit one. I also must say that, while I don't like popularity mechanisms myself, it's not very surprising to find them in the Python community since they exist everywhere else :) Thanks for the write-up. Antoine.