On Mon, 03.06.13 12:36, Tom Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > These submissions are mostly anonymized (some people put their names > or enough details in the abstracts to make it obvious who the proposed > speakers were). This is intentional, as we are trying to eliminate an > area of potential bias. We want the ideas behind these submissions to > be the area of focus, and not be overly biased by the speaker. This sounds seriously misguided. I mean, I usually prefer attending talks where I know that the presenter is actually involved in the respective project, rather than just any random guy/gal. I am all for levelling the playing field, but things like this sound like they have pretty negative consequences for the quality of talks. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
