[socal-piggies] We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions!

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Jathan McCollum <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish I knew this before I submitted two proposals I've been fighting hard
> with the reviewers with for the last 2 months.
>
> It's down to the 11th hour and I'm afraid neither of them will be accepted.
> :(

There's still a while until they're actually up for accept/reject.
What you've been experiencing is the result of our online reviews. All
proposals are visible on the PyCon website for the review team, and we
just click through the list, check out a proposal, then vote
+1/+0/-0/-1 and/or leave a comment for the proposer.

That's sort of like pre-reviewing, though. We put proposals up for
review in IRC meetings, which officially start next week, where
usually 10+ reviewers evaluate your proposal (by itself, no comparison
to others) in sort of a round-table discussion. We use those online
reviews to get a feel for what people are thinking and to allow voices
to be heard if they don't make the meeting, then we debate for a
while, then the actual voting on accept/reject occurs.

However, getting voted for acceptance at that stage isn't the end.
What we end up doing is take ~500 proposals and whittle that down to
say 250, then we have a second round where we compare against others.
If we get 4 proposals on CoolFramework, we may pit them against each
other and take one or two, with the eventual goal of picking the 95
talks that make up the schedule.

So, it's good that you've submitted early, have gotten feedback from
reviewers, and have been working with them. You put yourself in a much
better situation than a last-minute submitter like myself :) Best of
luck!