Jeroen,
I appreciate your frustration, and I know it is shared by many
others, as only 12 of the 34 3-hour workshop submissions could be
hosted. The criteria the workshop committee used in their evaluation
are here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/
FOSS4G2007_Workshops#Criteria_used_by_the_workshop_committee_to_review_w
orkshop_submissions
All the committee members ranked the submissions on those criteria
and the rankings were averaged. Two workshops in the top 12 that
were topic duplicates were removed and the next-lowest-ranked non-
duplicates were moved up. It appears that being on the committee is
no guarantee of satisfaction with the final result. The average of a
bunch of lists people want is a list that no one is 100% happy with.
Paul
On 28-Mar-07, at 10:36 PM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
Dear people,
Thank you for your information. I have to say I find that pretty
frustrating and annoying knowing that GeoNetwork opensource is one
of the incubator projects of OSGEO, the number of OSGEO projects is
(still) limited and FOSS4G is the OSGEO conference.
Participating with the project in OSGEO has multiple reasons, one
of them being that it provides opportunities to work on synergies
and work on marketing the OSGEO software stack. Now how does the
intent of OSGEOs mission fit with refusing a (single) workshop on
one of its projects. Maybe I miss something, but I'd assumed there
was at least some kind of a relation!?
Looking forward to some good feedback and discussion on this, also
on the OSGEO mailing list as I consider that discussion very
relevant in the further development of outreach strategies for
ourselves and the OSGEO foundation through conferences.
Core question:
"Should OSGEO projects have guaranteed workshop and presentation
space for at least one session?"
Regards,
Jeroen
On Mar 28, 2007, at 5:58 PM, FOSS4G 2007 wrote:
Dear Jeroen Ticheler,
We regret to inform you that we will not be able to accept your
Half Day
workshop, "Using the GeoNetwork opensource Spatial Data Catalog",
for the
FOSS4G 2007 program. We had a very large number of submissions
this year, and
have been able to accept less than half of them
.
We hope you will consider bringing some of your ideas to the
conference in the
form of a presentation. The Call for Presentations is currently
open, and
there is room for 120 presentations at the conference this year
.
http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations
Yours,
The FOSS4G 2007 Conference Committee
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