I participated in the review process. The process is fair and the people are smart but the rules are the problem.
Say for example 51% of reviewers are pro A (against B) and 49% are pro B (against A). If everybody votes on each of 100 items where each item can be associated to A or B uniquely, all items associated to A will pass, but no item associated to B will. Moreover people tend to have a bias vs "good speakers" rather vs good content. "good speakers" are defines as those people that the reviewers have heard talk already (aka people who previously spoke at PyCon). I am editor of a journal and I have been reviewer for others. In no place but PyCon reviewers can choose what to review. Usually each talk/ paper is randomly assigned to a fixed number (3-4) reviewers. This guarantees more or less that the proportion of accepted talks/papers are similar to the proportions of preferences of the reviewers. At PyCon people can see all talk proposal and can choose to vote pro/ against. All web2py have been rejected to 3 years now. Technically, at PyCon 2010, I am on a panel discussion on Forms but I will not go because 5 minutes of air time does not justify the costs. Moreover I have a conference in India the week after where I am giving a talk and I had to make a choice. Massimo On Jan 15, 12:32 am, mikech <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow very Django heavy. That's disappointing. > > On Jan 14, 10:27 pm, mikech <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Do they ever give reasons for the talks being rejected? Just curious. > > > On Jan 14, 9:28 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I doubt I will be able to attend but I do not know yet for sure. > > > > Massimo > > > > On Jan 14, 11:08 pm, Anand Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > PyCon Asia Pacific is happening soon in Singapore.http://apac.pycon.org > > > > > Massimo, > > > > > I came to know yesterday that you are on the Programme Team. So, are > > > > you planning to come down to SG in June? Submitting any > > > > papers?http://pycon.sit.rp.sg/organizing-committee-1 > > > > > Yesterday at the PUGS, there was a call for Tutorials or Papers. I am > > > > planning to propose a tutorial on Web2Py. Appreciate any insghts > > > > before I commit to the organizers or PyCon-APAC > > > > > Regards > > > > Anand > > > > > On Jan 15, 9:33 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > You probably will not see that at pycon. All web2py talks have been > > > > > rejected. > > > > > > On Jan 13, 10:11 pm, Jeff Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > If work will let up long enough, I hope to attend ... the > > > > > > reason I couldn't take advantage of pre-registration discount. > > > > > > Assuming I'll be there (60%+), I'd like to see what other > > > > > > people are doing with web2py. > > > > > > > -Jeff > > > > > > > On 01/12/2010 06:20 PM, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > > > > Anybody going to PyCon? > >
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