Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2016-05-19 16:23:27 +0000:
On 2016-05-19 09:38:24 -0400 (-0400), Doug Hellmann wrote: [...]
I would rather we have a more public way of selecting track chairs [...]
There's a separate demon hidden in that idea though. We don't (or didn't in the past AFAIK) publish the names of track chairs prior to conclusion of the talk selection process. The last thing I would want, as a track chair, is to suddenly be faced with hundreds or more E-mails from random speakers and their fans and coworkers asking me to please, please, pretty-please pick their proposal.
Sure, it's a balance. I think it would be fair to have a blanket rule that harassing the track chairs could be seen as automatic grounds for rejection, though we would want to define that carefully. Doug