Hi there
Benedikt Hegner skrev:
> Hi all,
>
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> After todays EP2007 meeting on #europython Laura, Michael and I
>> discussed the
>> track situation for the upcoming conference.
>> The following dilemmas were identified:
>>
>> - last year had lots of great talks - but maybe too many talks and no
>> room for
>> socializing and discussing - the idea was to have an Open Space to
>> mend this
>> - we are still missing track chairs for the web track and need co-chair
>> help with the language/lib track
>> - if we want to have proposals for education/methodology/social
>> and separate tracks for science and refereed papers then we would have
>> again the risk of too many tracks and the difficulty of handling talks
>> that land "in between" tracks
>> - PyCon does not have tracks - rather rooms that proposed talks were
>> grouped into sessions
>> (very much what happened at last years EuroPython)
>>
>> So - after some discussions we cooked up the following idea:
>>
>> - we do not announce tracks, instead we choose and describe a
>> selection of
>> "themes" that we describe in the Call for Proposal
>> ("themes" could be mixes of science/language-lib/web framworks/
>> games/education/methodology)
>>
>> - the "themes" would have the purpose of inspiring and guiding
>> submissions
>> and would make selection of proposals easier than having no guideline
>> at all
> The change indicates officially that the breakup into
> "themes"/"tracks" isn't too strict. I like that :)
>
> To sum up how I understand it: in the registration we give a list of
> topics/themes and the speaker can select the closest one to his talk.
> This would help us to assign those talks to people reviewing them.
> After finding out about "topic clusters" we group them into sessions
> with (hopefully) meaningful names.
>
> And completely independent from that above one can say if one wants to
> have it refereed or not, right?
>
That wasnt stated but I would be prepared to referee papers in
methodology/agile/social areas.
>> - we can then form a "program group" where people interested in
>> helping out
>> with reviewing talks join in - sharing the "chairing", groups sessions
>> based on accepted
>> proposals and work out who hosts the different
>> sessions when the conference is underway
> Do we still want to give contacts separated by "themes" (the ones in
> the call for papers) on the webpage?
>
Hmm - I think we should create a group mail or such:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or something
were people who agree to help out reviewing etc join. They would then
act as contacts if there are questions....
Just my 2cents on this question.
Also - thanks for feedbacking on this!
Cheers
Bea
> +1 to the idea by bea and mwh
>
> Ciao,
> Benedikt
>
>
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