Re: Proposed pre-selected sessions

On 22 Oct 2012, at 5:55 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, François Daoust <francois@joshfire.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Three parties requested pre-selected sessions before the deadline:
>>>> 
>>>>        • Web Intents and Web Intents for local services
>>>>        • Testing
>>>>        • Smarter Webapps for Smarter Phones
>>>> 
>>>> I propose we:
>>>> 
>>>> a) Say yes to those that requested.
>>>> b) Mark them as such in the wiki.
>>>> 
>>>> Unless there are objections, I'll let people know on Monday.
>>> 
>>> I object, as I did in previous email.
>>> 
>>> As observed in the minutes, with the experience last year, people will
>>> have no problem proposing sessions on day of, and I'd rather avoid
>>> showing any kind of apparent (even if unintended) topic-focus implied
>>> by preselection, especially with so few pre-selection proposals.
>>> 
>>> I'd rather go with no preselected proposals rather than rubberstamping
>>> a few by default just because there were so few proposals.
>> 
>> I thought we also said we would try to please people who are not
>> entirely comfortable with the idea that their session might not
>> happen. 3 sessions sound like a reasonable cost.
> 
> 
> I'm ok if this is done for cross-cultural reasons (which doesn't
> appear to be the case for the 3 proposals). But not just because the
> sessions are there.

Hi all,

Last week I had some concerns about available rooms given very large registration (455 people). But we got extra rooms, so I think we are covered. I am inclined to reply that we don't believe we will need to do anything special to ensure they have space, and the day of the meeting, if problems arise, we will work with them to find them space.

That work?

Ian



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