Excerpts from Tony Li on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 05:09:42PM -0800: > a) Try to decrease N by elimination. This could involve more > reviews of the N proposals to see which ones the program committee > feels are most interesting. This might succeed if M and N differ > only slightly.
Excerpts from Olivier Bonaventure on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 11:47:36AM +0100: > - select a short committee whose job will be to review the proposals > and select those that will be presented given the available time > > - choose a deadline for the submission of proposals, e.g. two months > before the meeting > > - As I think that it is important for the community to be aware of the > proposals, they should be sent as internet-drafts or publically > available technical reports and announced on the mailing list > > - during two or three weeks, the members of the committee write > reviews for the proposals. The community could also discuss the > proposals through the mailing list > > - the committee reads all reviews and selects the best ones for > presentations. The reviews are sent on the mailing list > > - the authors of the presentations should submit a revised version of > their proposal based on the feedback received on the mailing list > and from the reviewers I think public discussion of proposals should be the major factor going into how much discussion they get in face-to-face meetings. Individuals on the program committee should not be expected to or need to make decisions on their own. Therefore the process should include a period of significant public technical review before a committee member makes a decision. "Significant public technical review" could be as little as 2 weeks (more is better but sometimes there just isn't time). In general a good proposal gets *better* as it is scrutinized and discussed. In any case, once substantial public discussion has taken place, then a contributor can ask the program committee to consider the proposal. This both protects the program committee from suspicion of arbitrariness and technical incompetence :-p, and also supports them in evaluating proposals. -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
