Flock voting issues

[Truong Anh Tuan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neville A. Cross" <yn1v at taygon.com>
> To: flock-planning at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2015 10:29:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Flock voting issues

> On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 07:23 +0530, pravin.d.s at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> <skip>
>> I think initially forming small committee of different domains
>> experts to shortlist talk will be very helpful. May be 3-4 members.
>> it will help to evaluate topic strength/imp, speakers credibility.
>> May be then we can open it for voting.
> 
> I like the general direction of this idea. Lot of room for boil down
> details of who, how, when....
> 
> On the other hand speaker credibility may be a good thing for
> sponsoring the best people to talk... I hope having a better list of
> speakers may help to sponsor people that may have a multiplying effect
> in their local communities. Even that they do not provide talks. Not
> really a well formed idea. Just top of my head.

I think the idea to sponsor some most active people in local/regional
communities is good. It is not about an award for their active
contributions or things like that (we are almost volunteers and we do
not expect those kinds of prize when we do contributing to the project)
but it is about they have got a lot of things in their minds to share
with and to improve the whole community.

Following this way, I think it is better to sponsor for people who most
active in their specific areas, e.g. devel, packaging, docs, ambassadors,
globalization, marketing, design, etc. in short, FOSCo/FAmSCo and FESCo
members and some other people.

We will have some other ways to choose the right person to sponsor
(voting is one of these). Nothing is perfect and we may sometimes miss
some people. But I think mixing all of these, we will have the best list
of person to sponsor to each Flock.

Rgds,
Tuan