[OSDC Israel] Making sure speakers are good

[Roman Yakovenko]

On 7/31/06, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of the participants in the previous conference complained
> that there were certain speakers who did not prepare their talk well.
> Speakers who could not put their material through well enough.
>
> Some of these people suggested to do a 10-15 minute audition to the
> future speakers before accepting their proposals.
>
> I wonder what to do with this.

I complained about quality of speakers.
If my boss was on the previous conference, I am not sure, I would be
able to convince him
to pay for the next one.

I can see few ways to improve the situation:

1. Public scoring system. I think, user should be able to put score
for every lecture.
    May be it will not fix the situation for this conference, but for
the next one I will be able
    to choose not only the talk but also the speakers. This also
applies to OSDC organizers.
    For the next conference they will be able to select speakers.

2. May be you should build small groups of speakers and to force them
to work together.

3. Guide lines. Yes, OSDC can publish some documents/guide-lines that will help
    speakers to prepare their talks.

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