Manoj Srivastava dijo [Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:22:27AM -0500]: > Secondly, I am not sure that going against the martket > decision is wise, even then: popular debconf speakers do not gain > popularity because they look like movie stars; they are popular > because they have done seminal work in Debian (and have thus things > to convey to the rest of us), have demonstrated sound technical > judgement, or have demonstrated in the past that their talks are fun > and instructuve. > > Why should we try to put a handicap on these talks? Why isit > not possible that these people are popular because their talks are > likely to be good? What justification do you have to show that > "popular" speakers, if selected for, actually harm the confenrence? > Surely we have enough slots that good speakers with a track record of > informative talks do not crowd out deserving candidates?
It depends on what we want to achieve. Let me put a personal example here: Enrico Zini. His talks are _great_ by any measure, as anybody attending them will agree. And although he has some pretty deep and interesting technical ones, he is most often remembered by, i.e., "Polygen: A tool to end flamewars" or "Advanced tools for wasting time" - Not exactly technically advanced, but really appreciated, as they tackle Debian's social fabric in a funny way. So, of course, Enrico's talks will always be accepted. However, being a fan of him as I am, I prefer them being BoFs. Why? Because talks require presenting a paper. A paper will sometimes spoil the funnier bits of his talk to some of us. Sometimes it will just be too much of a bother. His talks, being as popular as they are, are much better off as BoFs. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
