Thanks Brian! That's a huge relief! Hope is restored! :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Brian Curtin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@python.org" target="_blank">brian@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Jathan McCollum <<a href="mailto:jathan@gmail.com">jathan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I wish I knew this before I submitted two proposals I've been fighting hard<br>
> with the reviewers with for the last 2 months.<br>
><br>
> It's down to the 11th hour and I'm afraid neither of them will be accepted.<br>
> :(<br>
<br>
</div>There's still a while until they're actually up for accept/reject.<br>
What you've been experiencing is the result of our online reviews. All<br>
proposals are visible on the PyCon website for the review team, and we<br>
just click through the list, check out a proposal, then vote<br>
+1/+0/-0/-1 and/or leave a comment for the proposer.<br>
<br>
That's sort of like pre-reviewing, though. We put proposals up for<br>
review in IRC meetings, which officially start next week, where<br>
usually 10+ reviewers evaluate your proposal (by itself, no comparison<br>
to others) in sort of a round-table discussion. We use those online<br>
reviews to get a feel for what people are thinking and to allow voices<br>
to be heard if they don't make the meeting, then we debate for a<br>
while, then the actual voting on accept/reject occurs.<br>
<br>
However, getting voted for acceptance at that stage isn't the end.<br>
What we end up doing is take ~500 proposals and whittle that down to<br>
say 250, then we have a second round where we compare against others.<br>
If we get 4 proposals on CoolFramework, we may pit them against each<br>
other and take one or two, with the eventual goal of picking the 95<br>
talks that make up the schedule.<br>
<br>
So, it's good that you've submitted early, have gotten feedback from<br>
reviewers, and have been working with them. You put yourself in a much<br>
better situation than a last-minute submitter like myself :) Best of<br>
luck!<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jathan.<br>--<br>