[Inpycon] Suggestion for panel members for PyCon India 2015

[Gora Mohanty]

Hi,

Have been hesitating to chip in here given my poor track record in
volunteering for Pycon India activities, and failing to deliver.
Nevertheless, from a perspective of having helped organise moderately-sized
open-source events, here is my 2 paise:
* Have always been uncomfortable with talk selection based solely on public
voting. IMHO, the core organisers of an event have the responsibility of
ensuring the quality of talks at the event. Thus, I am actually quite OK
with the talks being decided by an internal team provided that getting on
the internal team is not too difficult. The danger in this approach is that
the internal team ends up becoming quite cliquish, again IMHO. However, the
challenge should be to remain open, and I think that Pycon India has beenn
doing quite well at that.

* The idea of an external panel of experts is quite good, but it comes down
to how one selects such experts.
   - Even here, I think that the internal team needs to have strong
representation on the panel, and maybe even the final say.
   - So, what might work is a mixture of weightages from:
      x Public voting via a Funnel-like system
      x Inputs from a panel of experts
      x Inputs from core organisers

Regards,
Gora


On 2 February 2015 at 19:03, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <sree at mahiti.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2 February 2015 at 16:11, vijay kumar <vnbang2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >>  As every year we can let Chair and Co-Chair decide on the panel team
>>> as they have taken responsibility to make PyCon India better.
>>
>>
>> This is one example of where it may start to send wrong signals. We as a
>> community are striving for a better pycon every year, many community
>> members take responsibility for it.  Not just one or two designated members.
>>
>
> >> Sorry correcting my point .
>    Last year it was 2013 panelist who suggest panel member name.
> previously it was Chair and Co-Chair who were choosing panelist.(Correct me
> if am wrong)
>    I think it didn't work well last year as we ran in lot of problems with
> few good improvements point.(we have discussed this already extensively so
> let not start discussion on it again)
>      This is on going process where we will be improving every years.
>
> Anyone willing to help set criteria on panel selection please share.
> We even welcome volunteer to come forward and help us filtering panelist
> from nominations.
>
> -1 for public voting this is create more problems.
>
>
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