also sprach Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> [2014-08-18 22:33 +0200]:
When an event proposal is rejected by the talks committee then again
by the conference chairs, it might be useful for you to consider
listening to the reasons why before simply "self-scheduling" the
events.
Moray,
I am not aware of any rejection "by the conference chairs". My
pre-message to a bunch of people including all chairs was followed
up only by Tincho (not speaking for all chairs), and I replied to
him (and you) two days ago. Since then, I had a short, very abridged
conversation with Tincho, wherein there was no rejection or
objection — nor approval.
I received no other reply from anyone.
Regarding the talks team rejection, I respect that they couldn't
allocate a slot to my event proposal for reasons, whatever they may
be. But this does not mean I can't (shouldn't) organise it
otherwise, does it?
My motivation is to use our time at DebConf to approach complex and
hard issues with the benefit of sitting in a room together.
To date, I am not aware of any such efforts. I am certain there will
be a myriad of bilateral discussions, but that's no different from
last year, and we've not really advanced since then. Therefore
I went ahead. If it fails, it fails, just like all previous attempts
to rethink DebConf governance have failed.
I am happy to scratch these sessions because the chairs have
different plans, or to organise the sessions for you to lead, as
I told Tincho.
Hope this clarifies things…
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