On 06/04/2013 04:28 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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. When we publish the final schedule, we will have speaker names on them, so you won't be choosing talks without knowing who the presenter is. ~tom == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
