If you make it two hour workshops you can have 18 instead of 12.
2 hours is more than enough IMHO.
Best regards,
Bart
Paul Ramsey schreef:
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_workshop_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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