On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ross Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Edward M. Corrado <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I favor limiting up front. One of the issues we have been discussing >> is that perception that Code4Lib is not as inclusive as it can or >> should be. I believe having multiple proposals from the same person(s) >> and, for that matter, multiple proposals from the same institution(s), >> does nothing to help counter this perception, and possibly perpetuates >> it. > > Since I'm pretty intimately aware of the minutiae of the proposals (since I > have to load them one-by-one into the diebold-o-tron every year), I am pretty > sure that multiple proposal submission is not the exclusive domain of > conference veterans. > > It is a pretty healthy mix of people I know and people I don't.
But a new person to the community doesn't know who is a veteran or not. Edward > > While I still stick to not having a problem with multiple submissions, I can > see an issue in the case of second proposals that are similar to other > proposals. That said, the process is never going to be perfect, having some > editorial discretion on the part of the program committee seems to me to > mitigate the worst of the downsides. > > -Ross.
