[IGFmaglist] When you have not been asked...

[Yilmaz, Filiz]

Apologies for multiple-posting, I need to make a correction on my last paragraph in my previous mail. It should have read:

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...If I did NOT see clear confirmation of speakers, I found myself not being able to score a workshop with a high score. Panelists are an important integral of the quality of a workshop and I expect organisers to be sincere enough at least to have put the effort and contacted them as a general rule of thumb. 
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First sentence was missing a crucial “NOT” in the previous mail. 

Filiz



On 09 May 2014, at 16:38, Yilmaz, Filiz <koalafil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is very bad. 
> 
> On a related point, in fact, during Bali this was one of my frustrations as a sole participant too. 
> 
> So you think there are certain people listed for a panel, maybe this is one of the reasons you even choose a workshop over an other one in the high volume programme and then the speakers listed do not fit with the speakers you actually see at the head table. 
> 
> I kept hearing this situation, recruiting speakers on the fly, was often spotted to happen at IGFs but actually was improving.
> 
> Coming back to Anriette’s point, this was also the main reason for me to score low in my evaluation of the proposals: If I did to see clear confirmation of speakers, I found myself not being able to score a workshop with a high score. Panelists
> are an important integral of the quality of a workshop and I expect organisers to be sincere enough at least to have put the effort and contacted them as a general rule of thumb. 
> 
> Kind regards
> Filiz
> 
> 
> On 09 May 2014, at 16:12, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Dear all
>> 
>> I want to note that there are some proposals in which I have been listed as a co-proposer, or presented without the organisers having asked me to play either role.
>> 
>> So don't be entirely surprised if you see my name on a proposal that does not look terribly well-developed.
>> 
>> Do any other people on the MAG find themselves in this position?
>> 
>> Anriette
>> 
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