Re: [Minutes] 15 Oct TPAC Program Committee meeting from Tantek Çelik on 2012-10-15 (public-techplenary@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:33:23 -0700
To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Cc: public-techplenary@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAEV2_WYtNgTUavUWryaQXypruCHbYQ1vUgXAf=NC9Q=1=CuUSg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Minutes from today's call:
>  http://www.w3.org/2012/10/15-tpac-minutes

Thanks Ian.

> Summary:
>
>  * We have lots of sessions
>  * We have had only 2 request for pre-selected sessions.

IMHO this means we can do *without* pre-selected sessions this year.

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.

Thanks,

Tantek

Received on Monday, 15 October 2012 23:34:29 UTC