Planning meeting tomorrow

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:26:21PM -0500, inode0 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Barcamps are awesome, but let's be honest--most people know before they get
> > there what talk they're going to pitch. So let's do it that way. Let's know
> > what the schedule is before we get there. If for nothing else, we get back
> > several hours of the schedule that we use making pitches and building a
> > schedule.
> 
> 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.

Voting on sessions in advance would still provide this benefit.  The
BarCamp is mainly an organizational method and not the only way to
crowd-source the content.  Will registrants be able to vote on
sessions?

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