Paul Everitt wrote:
On Feb 24, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
Talk acceptance:
- require the actual presentation to be submitted ( we've been very
flexible with this previously )
Why is this a requirement?
During the Plone Con in Vienna, I noticed lots of people sitting
outside. I asked a few what were the reasons. The main one was, they
liked to socialize. :^) However, some folks also seemed disappointed
with the quality of some presentations.
>
I'm interested in ways to address. One choice is, as we've suggested,
ask people to prepare in advance. Benefits: people don't throw
something together at the last minute, we attract people that are
naturally more prepared, and we have time to interact via a review process.
This is pretty well understood, for anyone that has done a refereed paper.
Downsides: as Harald noted, we might scare off people that are good
presenters, presentation material isn't nearly as important as the
speaker (they should be minimal, in fact), and it increases the work on
Paul/Heimo.
If anybody has some better suggestions on how we can improve the
presentation quality, let us know. Equally, if people feel that
improving the quality isn't a needed goal, speak up on that too.
I believe that we have a rather high level of talk quality at
EuroPython - I haven't been to Plone Con, but are you sure that
you can compare the two ?
As for submitting talks in advance: but wouldn't a more complete
talk proposal be more helpful for the track chairmen ?
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