On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:26:21PM -0500, inode0 wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <[email protected]> wrote: > > Barcamps are awesome, but let's be honest--most people know before they get > > there what talk they're going to pitch. So let's do it that way. Let's know > > what the schedule is before we get there. If for nothing else, we get back > > several hours of the schedule that we use making pitches and building a > > schedule. > > Being honest we should note that the real point of barcamps is to let > the attendees choose the talks available to them rather than leaving > that to a committee of three people who don't know who will be > attending when the selections are made and may or may not know what > talks attendees would like to see. Barcamps do have issues and while > I'm not objecting to dropping them from the program there is a cost to > doing so.
Voting on sessions in advance would still provide this benefit. The BarCamp is mainly an organizational method and not the only way to crowd-source the content. Will registrants be able to vote on sessions? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
