Thanks to the Fedora Community for submitting 125 awesome talks, hackfests, sprints and workshops for Flock, our new contributor conference!
We've taken those submissions and put them in the Fedora Elections web application, and now, it is time for you to give us your feedback. These proposals have been submitted by the Fedora community and we want the Fedora community to tell us what _you_ want to see! Even if you cannot attend Flock in person, these sessions will be streamed and recorded, so your vote is appreciated!
If you have a Fedora Account (they are free to create), and have agreed to the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA), you can vote for the 125 submissions here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/vote/flock-2013
Need a Fedora Account? Go to: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts
Want to know more about Flock? Go to: http://flocktofedora.org
The way that the voting works is this:
For each submission, you can give it any score between 0 ("do not want") and 125 ("WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT!!!!"). Next to every submission title is a link to the abstract for the submission, which usually (though not always) contains a longer explanation. These submissions are mostly anonymized (some people put their names or enough details in the abstracts to make it obvious who the proposed speakers were). This is intentional, as we are trying to eliminate an area of potential bias. We want the ideas behind these submissions to be the area of focus, and not be overly biased by the speaker.
Voting is now open, and will remain open until 2013-06-10 04:00:00 UTC (12:00 AM Eastern Time).
Please note: While the voting results will weigh heavily upon the final Flock schedule, they will not be used as the sole determination for accepted talks.
On behalf of everyone working on Flock, thanks,
Tom Callaway
== Fedora Project
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:36:11PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
abstracts to make it obvious who the proposed speakers were). This is intentional, as we are trying to eliminate an area of potential bias. We want the ideas behind these submissions to be the area of focus, and not be overly biased by the speaker.
Will the submitter names be revealed when the voting is over? Some of these ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletters.
On 06/03/2013 12:55 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:36:11PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
abstracts to make it obvious who the proposed speakers were). This is intentional, as we are trying to eliminate an area of potential bias. We want the ideas behind these submissions to be the area of focus, and not be overly biased by the speaker.
Will the submitter names be revealed when the voting is over? Some of these ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to their newsletters.
The plan was to reveal the submitter names as part of the final schedule.
~tom
== Fedora Project
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Tom Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com wrote:
Thanks to the Fedora Community for submitting 125 awesome talks, hackfests, sprints and workshops for Flock, our new contributor conference!
We've taken those submissions and put them in the Fedora Elections web application, and now, it is time for you to give us your feedback. These proposals have been submitted by the Fedora community and we want the Fedora community to tell us what _you_ want to see! Even if you cannot attend Flock in person, these sessions will be streamed and recorded, so your vote is appreciated!
If you have a Fedora Account (they are free to create), and have agreed to the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA), you can vote for the 125 submissions here:
A quick suggestion before you begin voting. Go here:
http://register.flocktofedora.org/proposals
and read over the info for each proposal first. That will hopefully make your voting a bit easier, as it is rather hard to figure out what each proposal is actually about just from the title. Also, it helps to understand if something is a hackfest, workshop, or talk.
In the future, we might want to look at reworking the voting app to make it a bit less cumbersome to use. It doesn't seem to scale to something of this size. Maybe a hackfest is in order....
josh
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com wrote:
In the future, we might want to look at reworking the voting app to make it a bit less cumbersome to use. It doesn't seem to scale to something of this size. Maybe a hackfest is in order....
Agreed. At the scale of SXSW with thousands of proposals, you can search by topic and keywords to vote on the things most relevant to you. I don't think we're at that point, but maybe pre-sorting by topic area or something like that would help.
On 06/03/2013 02:03 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com mailto:jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
In the future, we might want to look at reworking the voting app to make it a bit less cumbersome to use. It doesn't seem to scale to something of this size. Maybe a hackfest is in order....Agreed. At the scale of SXSW with thousands of proposals, you can search by topic and keywords to vote on the things most relevant to you. I don't think we're at that point, but maybe pre-sorting by topic area or something like that would help.
Our elections app is really not well suited to this task. We knew it before we used it, but a lack of time and resources meant we had to.
We'd _LOVE_ it if someone built a more robust voting engine that met the needs of Flock as well as the general election needs.
~tom
== Fedora Project
Hi,
2013/6/3 Tom Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com
On 06/03/2013 02:03 PM, Ruth Suehle wrote:
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com mailto:jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
In the future, we might want to look at reworking the voting app to make it a bit less cumbersome to use. It doesn't seem to scale to something of this size. Maybe a hackfest is in order....Agreed. At the scale of SXSW with thousands of proposals, you can search by topic and keywords to vote on the things most relevant to you. I don't think we're at that point, but maybe pre-sorting by topic area or something like that would help.
Our elections app is really not well suited to this task. We knew it before we used it, but a lack of time and resources meant we had to.
We'd _LOVE_ it if someone built a more robust voting engine that met the needs of Flock as well as the general election needs.
what would be definitely helpful is when talks on http://flock-lmacken.rhcloud.com/proposals have the same sorting
br gnokii
~tom
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