Re: [DRAFT] EmacsConf 2020 Call for Proposals

[David Bremner]

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