Re: [DRAFT] EmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals

[Amin Bandali]

David Bremner writes:

> Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> writes:
>
>> +All kinds of people use Emacs for all kinds of things. We would love
>> +it if EmacsConf 2020 could highlight interesting perspectives and
>> +reflect the diversity of our community. If you know someone who might
>> +have a good idea for a talk, please reach out to them and encourage
>> +them. Many people (especially from underrepresented groups such as
>> +women, people of color, and non-developers) might not consider
>> +themselves expert enough to share their thoughts. If you let them know
>> +that you value their knowledge and maybe even suggest something that
>> +you think others would like to hear more about, they may realize that
>> +they have something worth sharing.
>> +
>> +This year, we are experimenting with an anonymized submission process.
>> +Identifying information will be removed from submissions by a
>> +conference organizer who will not participate in talk selection. The
>> +anonymized submissions will then be reviewed by a selection committee.
>> +We hope this will help reduce bias and encourage contribution. We look
>> +forward to hearing from you (and the people you want to nudge to speak)!
>
> This looks fine to me.  Do we have any way of measuring the outcomes
> from this experiment? I guess we can compare speaker self identification
> with last year.
>
> d

Thanks Sacha and David for your suggestions, and for committing them to
the repo.  I agree with all the changes.  I made some small and mostly
aesthetic tweaks to them but that's it.  I will also check into the repo
an updated copy of the Org file I attached previously that I use to
export the ASCII version of the announcement that I send to lists.

As for measuring the outcomes of this experiment, yeah it would seem so.

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