Not only lightning talks, but we have unconferences that everyone can sign up on site. On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 at 21:37 Holger Levsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:22:46PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > > It seems talk/event proposals go into a black box until approved by a > "secret" > > committee, or discarded. > > the members of the content team are public, there is not secret > committee. > > > In fact > > https://debconf18.debconf.org/cfp/ > > doesn't mention that proposals are secret, which is quite different than > > one would expect with Debian, and > > in 19 years of DebConfs AFAIK you are the first to bring this up, so I > dont think this unexpected or a surprise. > > also this is how all conferences i know operate. there are other models, > like barcamps, however, which operate differently. > > > https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/new/ > > only says on the very bottom input box > > "Any notes for the conference organisers? These are not visible to the > > public." > > implying the rest will be public. (Ah, but only after the event gets > > approved.) > > once selected talk information (except those notes) become public. > > > My worry is, with this "closed source" model, maybe many valuable > > talk/event ideas will be missed/skipped/lost/not understood therefore > > discarded. > > there's always lightning talks. > > > Nor is there any "public oversight" process where we can see if it was > > 90 out of 100 ideas were rejected, of just 2 out of 12, etc. > > you are free to join the content team. > > > -- > cheers, > Holger >
