Agreed.
Well said Cameron, with the aside that there may be an interesting talk from a
previously little known person.
I suggest leaving this to the discretion of the LOC and interested parties who
subscribe to that year's FOSS4G mailing list.
A popularity campaign is not required or wanted.
I believe that for the general program, we should publish both the
presenter and abstract. Reasons:
1. I'm attracted to a talk by both the topic and the presenter. I'm more
likely to listen to a talk by someone who has a deep knowledge of a
topic, which typically equates to someone with a big re
I believe anonymous reviews has a place as a component of paper selection - as
a compliment to editorial review and professional judgement.FOSS4G
conference is the number one marketing opportunity for the OSGEO community. We
should make a deliberate effort to have a balance between inward f
I'm in favour too. It has potential, let's see how an anonymous
community process works in practice.
P.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Volker Mische wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 10/01/2012 06:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>> In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we
>>
Hi all,
On 10/01/2012 06:10 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we
> intended to select presentations for the main track of the conference.
> Some discussion amongst the committee has been going on, and we think
> it necessary to informa
On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> * some names are big draws, and it would be disappointing to not have
> someone because their abstract wasn't that exciting.
If they don't have anything interesting to say, they should not be "big draws."
Selection should be on the "chara
In our bid for FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham, we didn't precisely say how we
intended to select presentations for the main track of the conference.
Some discussion amongst the committee has been going on, and we think
it necessary to informally poll the community to get a feel for what
method is preferred
On Oct 1, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> social trips (caves anyone?
> http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/caves-of-nottingham_11.html),
Even though Kimbereley is no more, how 'bout ye olde trip to jerusalem?
http://www.triptojerusalem.com/
--
Puneet Kishor
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All the news that's fit to print from your FOSS4G 2013 committee..
The biggie is that the deal is now done with Transactions in GIS that
a number of papers from the Academic Track submissions will be
accepted into the journal for publishing. "TGIS" as it is known, "is
an international, peer-review
