On 10/02/2012 01:43 PM, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Volker Mische <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I don't agree. I like the idea of having the community vote on the >> abstracts only and then the organising committee can make the call of >> adding some some big names to draw the expected attention to the >> conference. They may even use some abstract that wasn't voted that much, >> but the committee still thinks it's an good idea. > > I dislike the "popularity contest" because it is too easily biased > with lobbying ("please vote for me") as we have seen in the past > years. We'd better aim at quality than lobbying...
Hi Markus, does it means you against a public voting in general? Or against one which includes names? Or do you like the idea of a public voting which only contains the abstracts but nothing else? Cheers, Volker _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
