Talk proposal process
Jonathan Oxer
This Friday is the deadline for providing details of the Call For Papers
if we want it included in an official announcement. For that to happen
we need to provide an email address for people to submit proposals, a 1
para outline of the miniconf, and the URL to the miniconf website if
there is one. We can also optionally provide an RSS feed to include in
the LCA planet.
Which raises some issues.
== Paper Selection ==
The approach so far has been to be as open and collaborative as possible
with respect to organising the miniconf. I'm happy to be convinced
otherwise, but I feel that it's not appropriate to ask potential
speakers to submit their proposals to a public forum and then debate
them in public before deciding winners and losers. It would prevent us
having frank discussion along the lines of "I saw this guy talk at
conference FooBar, and he was hopeless so rule him out" etc. It may also
discourage otherwise good proposals for fear of that sort of thing
happening.
So my suggestion is that we set up an email address for proposals and
pick say 3 people who will perform the selection process - a small and
very informal "papers committee", in effect. Proposals would go to those
3 people who would discuss them privately and come to a decision about
which ones to pick.
Sound reasonable?
I'm happy to be one of the 3, and if anyone else wants to help with the
selection process please speak up. Otherwise I'll just start nominating
people!
== Miniconf Website ==
We don't have anything but the Google Group at the moment, but since I
have control over the practicalarduino.com domain we could make use of
that (either a subdomain or just a subsection) for a micro-site with
info about the schedule, talk summaries, downloads for pre-conf prep,
etc when they are finalised. Maybe miniconf2010.practicalarduino.com.
Any objections or better ideas? I need to get back to the LCA organisers
this week.
Cheers :-)
Jonathan Oxer
Ph +61 4 3851 6600
Glynn Foster
On 31/08/2009, at 2:41 PM, Jonathan Oxer wrote:
> == Miniconf Website ==
> We don't have anything but the Google Group at the moment, but since I
> have control over the practicalarduino.com domain we could make use of
> that (either a subdomain or just a subsection) for a micro-site with
> info about the schedule, talk summaries, downloads for pre-conf prep,
> etc when they are finalised. Maybe miniconf2010.practicalarduino.com.
You are very welcome to use the wiki -
http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Main_Page
Glynn
Jonathan Oxer
> You are very welcome to use the wiki -
>
> http://www.lca2010.org.nz/wiki/Main_Page
Thanks Glynn!
That would be ideal if we don't want to have a centralised RSS feed,
which is probably not that useful anyway. We can just have our
individual blogs added to the planet and do posts about miniconf stuff
there.
Cheers :-)
Jon
Glynn Foster
You point of contact for web stuff is Francois, cc'd - he'll be able
to help in any additional requests you may have.
Glynn
Trent Lloyd
This approach sounds reasonable. I wonder a little if an official
process is required but either way we need to fit within the confines
of the announcement requirements here.
I stick my hand up for paper review as well. What did you have in
mind for an e-mail? Perhaps a gmail account or some such. There's
also miniconf.org I don't know who runs that but maybe we can get
involved with that.
Thanks,
Trent
Trent Lloyd
http://lathiat.net/
Jonathan Oxer
> You point of contact for web stuff is Francois, cc'd - he'll be able
> to help in any additional requests you may have.
Yep, thanks, it was actually an email from Francois to me that prompted
this thread. I just wanted to make sure everyone else was happy with the
way things were going before I replied to him about the CFP inclusion in
the official email.
Cheers :-)
Jon
follower
reasonable approach to take.
My only suggestion would be perhaps to at least make the proposal
titles (and abstracts?) publicly available (sans authors/identifying
details?) to enable people to say "hey, I really like the sound of
that one" etc to gauge potential audience interest?
--Philip.
andyg (geekscape)
On Aug 31, 12:41 pm, Jonathan Oxer <j...@oxer.com.au> wrote:
> This Friday is the deadline for providing details of the Call For Papers
> if we want it included in an official announcement.
that we'd provide as part of the Arduino / Open-Hardware programme for
the day ... or would our own tutorial / presentation submissions be
part of that process as well ?
> == Paper Selection ==
> The approach so far has been to be as open and collaborative as possible
> with respect to organising the miniconf. I'm happy to be convinced
> otherwise, but I feel that it's not appropriate to ask potential
> speakers to submit their proposals to a public forum and then debate
> them in public before deciding winners and losers.
choice of papers accepted.
People are often a little hurt that their submissions aren't
accepted ... no point in making this unfortunate aspect of the process
any more public than necessary.
> So my suggestion is that we set up an email address for proposals and
> pick say 3 people who will perform the selection process - a small and
> very informal "papers committee", in effect. Proposals would go to those
> 3 people who would discuss them privately and come to a decision about
> which ones to pick.
>
> Sound reasonable?
cheers andyg (geekscape)
Francois
> Is this a Call For Papers in addition to any tutorials / presentations
> that we'd provide as part of the Arduino / Open-Hardware programme for
> the day ... or would our own tutorial / presentation submissions be
> part of that process as well ?
present as part of your miniconf. You are of course free (and
encouraged!) to get involved in your own miniconf. How you run the
process is entirely up to you and so you don't have to consider your
own presentations/tutorials demos as part of this process.
Cheers,
Francois
LCA2010 Miniconf Coordinator