On 06/04/2013 08:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:22:50AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > >> I disagree - this lets people judge proposed talks/sessions on what is >> written. > > I don't go to presentations because of the quality of the abstract. I go > to presentations based on whether or not I believe the speaker is > competent in the field they're talking about and able to communicate > that competence. It's vital information for making a realistic judgement > of whether a proposal should be in the final program or not. Indeed. Abstract can be polished to hell and back to bring it to a certain "quality". But if I'm attending a talk, I'd rather look up the presenter. If it's a young/new gun, and topic piques my interest, I might go anyway :) But these are personal preferences and classic bike-shedding topics. So, I'll stop my monologue here :) -- /kashyap -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
