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

[Ed Leafe]

On Mar 23, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Atul Varma wrote:

> 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).


	Unfortunately, the description of a proposed talk can have little to  
do with the quality of the talk. There were several talks that I had  
anticipated eagerly last week, based on the description, only to find  
that they were boring and uninformative. Conversely, I went to a few  
that didn't sound all that interesting on paper but were very engaging  
in person.


-- Ed Leafe



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