Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] submission categories nee

[Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just to pique some discussion...
>
> So last year we had these broad category buckets and then tagging
> within those buckets. A number of issues ensued, but IIRC they were
> very much about insufficient communication regarding the tags and
> their usage by submitters, and the fact that the tag space was shared
> by submitters and by reviewers, so that changes by reviewers were
> available to view by submitters.
>
> There was feedback that  relating the talk to a project makes it easier
> for attendees to navigate the conference. But there are so many
> different projects...
>
> One proposal would be to stick with last year's approach, except to
> make sure that there is a second set of tags that the committee can
> edit for the purposes of review that are not visible to all.

The consensus reached was that we stick with the broad categories
(which I like) and drop the talk tags. I rather have people focus on
their submission and not be narrowed into a specific "tag" ... let's
just have people submit the best talk they can. That's the reasoning
in my head at least.

For organizational purposes, the PC will create tags later on when we
go and review the talks to help with the curation process. I'm hoping
between all of us on the PC, we can come up with good tags that help
us and conference attendees. We can have this discussion later though.

One challenge this year is that we don't have much resources in the
way of changing the submission system due to losing Gabe an co.

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Chris Aniszczyk
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