On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
I was talking to Dmitri Pal (from FreeIPA) at LISA, and he suggested that rather than having people vote on individual talks, we could have people propose _topics_, and then we'd have a community-wide vote on those - separate from specific speakers or talks. From that, we could have a "skeletal" schedule of tracks and talks in certain areas. Then, we could have interested/knowledgeable people in each selected topic fill that out... maybe provide an ordered list of recommended talks/sessions, which would go to the Flock committee for final selection.
That seems like a recipe for disaster. I've never seen any other event work that way, and I do not think that is a good plan going forward. It
In some ways, it's similar to how FOSDEM works with the devrooms. But I hear you about more work.