[Scipy-organizers] Reviewer Stickers on Badges / Honors In Program?

James Bergstra james.bergstra at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 18:38:45 EST 2013


Great ideas guys, I would work for an "I reviewed for SciPy 2013" laptop
sticker.


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Jonathan Rocher <jrocher at enthought.com>wrote:

> Katy,
>
> I love your mathematical computation of how much is a bajillion at the end
> :D.
>
> I love these ideas. Last year, we had lots of things to raffle and almost
> not enough people/good opportunities/time to do these raffles. We could
> also imagine a $50 discount on their registration, or a special tee-shirt
> "SciPy Reviewer", or "Python Expert". But I like your ideas.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Katy Huff <katyhuff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ya'll.
> >
> > We're going to need a bajillion* reviewers for the abstracts and papers.
> >
> > That worried me. BUT Anthony had a brilliant idea! He suggested we could
> > get lots of extra reviews per reviewer if there was some incentive to
> > review more than 10 papers each. In particular he suggested we could
> offer
> > stickers on badges and an honorary note in the program for reviewers at
> > various "levels."
> >
> > That way, when we invite people to become reviewers, they would be told
> > that they would be honored as "bronze level" for 10 reviews, "silver
> level"
> > for 20 reviews, and "gold level" for 30 reviews. ( or something like
> that )
> > Hopefully, this would encourage them to do more than 10 reviews.
> >
> > Serge also suggested that we could add incentive by raffling something
> > among the "gold" level folks as well. I think that would be great.
> >
> > So - Does anyone not love these ideas? Does anyone have a better one?
> >
> > Can we get such stickers on the badges? (Probably this question is mostly
> > directed at Andy & Kelsey & Leah). Are there things we could raffle?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Katy
> > (your friendly program co-chair)
> >
> > * If we just think about the abstracts and assume 70% conference growth
> > (i.e. 600 attendees), I think we need to be prepared for 200 abstracts to
> > be submitted, which means we need about 75 reviewers. That's
> approximately
> > a bajillion.
> >
> >
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