[Chicago] selecting talks Re: [PyCON-Organizers] Talk slot durations (was: FWD: Re: Pycon disappointment)

[sheila miguez]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:51 AM, John Melesky <list at phaedrusdeinus.org>

> > Except for this part. Instead of 50 points, every registered user
> > could vote a talk up or down if they wished (in a reddit/digg-like
> > fashion). No real need to limit people.
> >
>
> My (admittedly off-the-cuff) impetus for limiting people was to provide some
> mechanism for actually choosing between lots of really good proposals; for
> instance, if every single PyCon talk happened to get a "thumbs up" from
> every single community member, this wouldn't actually help in determining

Right, so we need some limiting factor. a point pool. or perhaps a
forced-choice approach e.g.  "A and B are in the same slot. Which do
you go see?" Then go through rounds of combinations (go see the
bestthing.info I mentioned for the idea). Or, some other limiting
ideas I am ignornat of.



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sheila