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

[Jathan McCollum]

Thanks Brian! That's a huge relief! Hope is restored! :)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> 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!
>
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