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.
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cheers,
Holger