I don't know how other PC members evaluate sessions. This is how I do it: I read the submission. I google the name to see if the speaker actually has credentials, work experience in the area that I can find, and look for any blogs or videos that are up online - and I actually watch those videos to see how good of a speaker the person is. For me, seeing on video how good of a speaker someone is forms a very large part of how I rate the submission.
I am against blind submissions. On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 9:41 AM Robert Ramey <ra...@rrsd.com> wrote: > 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> 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 >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "boostcon-plan" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to boostcon-plan+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/CAFYdOOLHuUXY0Pmi2acf%2BdPmSfxjQO12tMR6-WVjjbcA9Ouqvg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/CAFYdOOLHuUXY0Pmi2acf%2BdPmSfxjQO12tMR6-WVjjbcA9Ouqvg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "boostcon-plan" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to boostcon-plan+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/CAP3wax-HVeWnmjbYTQhGGdJ36NNWdV9QpqO%2BxEmoAncKSe%2BtJA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/CAP3wax-HVeWnmjbYTQhGGdJ36NNWdV9QpqO%2BxEmoAncKSe%2BtJA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > Robert Rameywww.rrsd.com > (805)569-3793 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "boostcon-plan" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to boostcon-plan+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/9e7a0ef8-1b6a-aaee-8c39-89b0bbf3e1fc%40rrsd.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/boostcon-plan/9e7a0ef8-1b6a-aaee-8c39-89b0bbf3e1fc%40rrsd.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "boostcon-plan" group. 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