Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Yes / No Polling Analysis

[Oisin Hurley <ohurley@xxxxxxxx>]

> In terms of a neutral bucket, I have no problem with that idea but I  
> wonder if it would not be better to focus on getting accurate counts  
> on number of attendants for each session with the assumption that if  
> someone doesn't vote that they were neutral.

As the other followups have said, that can be difficult to organize.
I usually try to estimate the numbers as I'm speaking, to give a
rough number which I then inflate proportionally to my handlers
so I look more important ;)

Here's a radical notion - in a lot of talks, there's an AV guy in
the room, bored rigid. Could bribery work to get him to count the
heads?

Now, the real point of this mail was to mention what I think the
major issue is here - and that is getting people who think the
talk is 1) crap, 2) irrelevant to register a -1 vote. If the choice
is +1, -1, people tend to be polite and not register the -1. It's
only the emotionally involved will do the -1. So I think the beige
bucket is a good plan, as it gives people who didn't like the talk
that much, but didn't passionately hate it, to exercise their
franchise more appropriately. It could also become a handy term
of mild rebuke - "Yeah, my talk was beige-bucketed out the wazoo,
I'm sick as a parrot".

 --oh

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