I wasn’t serious to begin with, but faced with the two options of either: The Foundation dropping the voting and using the (same old) "cheer squad" to select talks.. Or Your proposal of only letting speakers pick talks.. It increasingly looks as valid selection method as any. Both the above methods, by dropping the audience's ability to have their say in any way at all say fuck the audience. Maybe voting for the track chairs is a way to give the audience some say. The current method of the foundation picking the cheer squad denies any critique. I was once a track chair, but haven't been for a couple of years because I got dropped from the cheer squad possibly for not agreeing that everything the foundation and the TC do is beyond question. But at least I get to vote for talks and take great pleasure in voting against the usual blowhards that the cheer squad nominate _every_single_summit_.
-----Original Message----- From: Florian Haas [mailto:florian@hastexo.com] Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2016 11:39 PM To: Tristan Goode <tristan@aptira.com> Cc: community <community@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [openstack-community] Proposal: remove voting on speaking proposals for Barcelona Summit
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Tristan Goode <tristan@aptira.com> wrote:
A reasonable quantity of talks that have been through the selection processes for each summit have been complete rubbish, so, your argument is invalid.
I had no idea you were actually being serious about total randomization.
Florian