I recommended canceling developer track even though I am obviously a strong supporter of it. We simply cannot do a good job with the few slots available for community and developer tracks. We will annoy many people who want to contribute if we announce it and turn down the dozen or more people who will expect to be on track. We should smile and do a good job on community track at OGF20 and reserve doing a good job on developer track at OGF21 neil p chue hong wrote:
Hi Dave,
There is a suggestion to cancel the developer track at OGF20, as we are short of slots and have several good workshop proposals. E.g. we would like to fit in the Arts and Humanities workshop.
I think it would be a big mistake to cancel the Developer Track. If we are to consider OGF in its wider role as a community forum to bring together people working in eScience, the Developer track fulfils a previously unaddressed gap for those who are working close to standards but not on them, and those who are working with applications scientists on developing software and applications.
The four sessions I attended at OGF19 (GT4, OMII-UK, Genesis-II and OGCE) were all very well attended and generated a lot of ongoing interest. My only comment is that the steer for these sessions should focus them to a developer audience - some veered a bit to high up towards marketing.
cheers, neil
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