Re: [Debconf-team] Minutes from the last meeting
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sadly, I wasn't in the meeting to discuss this. I don't understand
> what's about this keynote-frenzy. It's just to make a point to MarkS?
It's mainly because if we are going to have keynotes, we should have
more than one. I started it, when I realized that Mark's talk was
being listed as the only keynote of the conference.
> That seems silly to me, specially when I have already stated many
> times that we (the papers committee) accepted MarkS talk but as a
> *regular talk*.
Where was this officially communicated? The only entry I found about
this is a comment in the talk review. **The talk is still a keynote
in the public listing of talks**.
So forgive me if I can't read your mind. I understood by this, that
the talk had been accepted as a keynote, and so did everyone who read
the listing.
> Also, how's that this 3 additional keynotes were approved without even
> a keynote proposal? I'm sure as hell that the papers committee would
> have voted positively on talks from this great guys, having been given
> the chance to read a proposal, but this is overriding us completely.
> No proposal, no discussion, just giving out the more prominent slots
> in a way (from what I read in the logs) completely arbitrary.
That's how keynotes go. Keynotes don't get proposed and accepted by a
papers commitee, you invite a certain speaker that you think is of
great value to give a talk of their preference, not the other way
round.
BTW, the only real "invite" up to now is bubulle's. Bdale had his
right to the talk because HP is a Platinum sponsor. And Sledge
because he's the current DPL.
> Personally, I've spent MANY hours reading proposals, trying to vote as
> evenly as possible, and I know that the rest of the committee has
> worked as hard. Now I feel that I wasted many precious hours.
How come? You have not wasted a single minute. I have just
encouraged a bunch of people to add a few more talks, I have not
removed any, nor have I approved any talks that weren't approved.
> And finally, excuse me, but why mail Marga instead of committee@debconf.org?
Well, when I said this, I couldn't think of a proper mail, I didn't
even know there was a "commitee". I agree "commitee" would probably
have been better, but since I was the one contacting possible keynote
speakers it seemed simpler that way.
--
Besos,
Marga
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