On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 04:22:46PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > It seems talk/event proposals go into a black box until approved by a "secret" > committee, or discarded. the members of the content team are public, there is not secret committee. > In fact > https://debconf18.debconf.org/cfp/ > doesn't mention that proposals are secret, which is quite different than > one would expect with Debian, and in 19 years of DebConfs AFAIK you are the first to bring this up, so I dont think this unexpected or a surprise. also this is how all conferences i know operate. there are other models, like barcamps, however, which operate differently. > https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/new/ > only says on the very bottom input box > "Any notes for the conference organisers? These are not visible to the > public." > implying the rest will be public. (Ah, but only after the event gets > approved.) once selected talk information (except those notes) become public. > My worry is, with this "closed source" model, maybe many valuable > talk/event ideas will be missed/skipped/lost/not understood therefore > discarded. there's always lightning talks. > Nor is there any "public oversight" process where we can see if it was > 90 out of 100 ideas were rejected, of just 2 out of 12, etc. you are free to join the content team. -- cheers, Holger
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