Flock proposals now open for community voting

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 06/04/2013 08:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:22:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
>> I disagree - this lets people judge proposed talks/sessions on what is
>> written. 
> 
> I don't go to presentations because of the quality of the abstract. I go 
> to presentations based on whether or not I believe the speaker is 
> competent in the field they're talking about and able to communicate 
> that competence. It's vital information for making a realistic judgement 
> of whether a proposal should be in the final program or not.

Indeed. Abstract can be polished to hell and back to bring it to a certain "quality". But
if I'm attending a talk, I'd rather look up the presenter. If it's a young/new gun, and
topic piques my interest, I might go anyway :)

But these are personal preferences and classic bike-shedding topics. So, I'll stop my
monologue here :)


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/kashyap