It would cost nothing to try this for starters
Blind submissions - I think this is one of the most important principles
for a diverse lineup. Every industry has its “celebrities”, the famous
personas that give really awesome talks everyone wants to hear. If you
choose the speakers only by their names and not by the content they
deliver, we will always see the same people giving the same talks over
and over again. By making the submission blind you’re giving a chance
for the content to speak for itself and making the persona a secondary.
Note that for the final tweaking - they "unblind" the submissions so
it's a hybrid. I think that many potential submitters are intimidated
knowing that will be compared with the "stars". I would hope that this
would encourage more participation of those who are more out of the
mainstream.
Also, I'm not sure how much the program committee actually represents
the "real C++ user". It seems that the PC is mostly C++ nerds. Not a
bad thing - but not really representative of the C++ community in
general. I would be curious to see some sort of investigation which
shows the PC rattings of a presentation vs the attendance and/or youtube
views. I've been struck by my own experience:
a) My proposals have always been accepted.
b) I've always been disappointed by the attendence to my presentations
c) The response to youtube videos to my presentations has generally been
better than average and in many case quite positive.
I honestly don't know what to make of all this.
CPPCon has a been a tremendous success so you guys must be doing
something right.
I'm pretty convinced that diversity for diversities sake is a really,
really, really bad idea.
Soooo - to summarize:
a) make submissions blind at least initially
b) invest more effort in calls for papers. This is work. Maybe you
should seen send emails or ? to all git hub libraries with more than 100
stars. Or maybe to all universities with graduate programs. Or maybe
all "big" companies which use C++.
Robert Ramey
On 8/28/19 7:29 AM, Bryce Adelstein Lelbach aka wash wrote:
We actually just had a discussion among some CppCon organizers about a
similar article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-run-inclusive-cfp-have-more-diverse-line-up-speakers-shamban/?trackingId=Fts2XkVsQoGKgd/NoWNcFw%3D%3D
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 7:24 AM David Sankel <cam...@gmail.com
<mailto:cam...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Howdy,
Some news that ya'll should be aware of:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/27/php_europe_cancelled/
Someone shared this link with me recently with suggestions on how
to get more diversity in a conference:
https://medium.com/@geek_manager/broadening-the-responses-to-our-conference-cfp-a22f120fa941
-- David
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