On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:16:22 -0400 Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosow...@nist.gov> wrote:
> On 06/04/2013 10:02 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > > On 06/04/2013 09:55 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> What's even weirder is that some folks are explicitly mentioned > >> (such as Jon Masters) in the descriptions, so the playing field > >> isn't actually that levelled after all? > > > > Only people who refer to themselves by name in their own abstracts > > (or describe themselves in such a way that it is obvious who they > > are) ended up like this. We honestly didn't think that was going to > > happen. > > > > This was an experiment. If it doesn't work, we don't have to do it > > again. > > In general, it's not surprising that the author often could be > divined from the abstract---after all, they are going to talk about > their own project (e.g. Lennart on systemd, Ajax on X driver > infrastructure, Dan Walsh on SELinux, etc). There just doesn't seem > to be a way to avoid that, and besides, past reputation does predict > future performance. It's for the editorial board to implement a > diversity policy by inviting the young'uns, if they wish so. > I disagree - this lets people judge proposed talks/sessions on what is written. I think it's a good idea and, if nothing else, it is just a good trial. And that's enough. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
