Re: Proposed pre-selected sessions

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.
The "Tell us if you'd like to reserve a slot" is also something we
asked people to do. It seems a bit odd to now come back and say
"Thanks. No." to everyone. Given the success in terms of the number of
topics that appear on the Wiki this time and the short number of
people who asked to be pre-selected, I think it's a good idea not to
propose such a mechanism next time (sticking to something like
"contact us if you have questions or specific demands")


> The proposers of these are welcome to do so in-person at the Tech
> Plenary. I have a feeling that the latter two in particular may
> overlap with others' proposals (those topics come up a lot in web
> developer discussions) and thus it would be better to have them
> combined with similar proposals in real-time.

I agree that the session "Testing at W3C" probably does not need
pre-selection. The persons who proposed the topic are also fluent in
barcamps, and I don't think they are the ones who actually requested
the session to be pre-selected. Or did they?

In short, I would:
- say "yes" to the first and last session
- check with people who proposed "Testing at W3C" whether they think
their session needs to be pre-selected.

Received on Monday, 22 October 2012 09:01:14 UTC