Planning meeting tomorrow

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:26 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Being honest we should note that the real point of barcamps is to let
> the attendees choose the talks available to them rather than leaving
> that to a committee of three people who don't know who will be
> attending when the selections are made and may or may not know what
> talks attendees would like to see. Barcamps do have issues and while
> I'm not objecting to dropping them from the program there is a cost to
> doing so.

I'll admit that I haven't attended many conferences, but the ones that
I have been to that were done barcamp style I felt that the presenters
at barcamps were less prepared than presenters at other conferences.
I'd much prefer a SXSW-like process where presentations were voted
upon beforehand, like Ruth mentioned.

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Jeff Ollie