<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just thought I'd chime in and explain better the nature of the<br>
discussion the council had:<br>
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- I received some personal correspondence on this topic that I<br>
forwarded from council.<br>
- We did not discuss LCA being an exclusively peer-reviewed<br>
conference, as that would substantially change the nature of the<br>
conference, in a way that's probably not relevant to a lot of LA<br>
speakers.<br>
- We discussed other options, including optional peer review for<br>
people who would benefit from it (people from academic institutions<br>
for instance).<br>
<br>
None of these discussions progressed very far, and we neither have any<br>
concrete proposals, or intentions to change anything right now. If<br>
anything were to happen along these lines, there'd be a definite need<br>
to balance what LCA is now and the community that it serves, and any<br>
change towards peer review.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So to chip in - we've offered peer review previously, at least once or twice in the past 10 years, and it wasn't really taken up.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I don't personally believe it's the right fit for <a href="http://linux.conf.au" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a> - academic peer-reviewed conferences and LCA optimise for different things. LCA is all about code-first, up to the minute progress, slide-deck and no formal writeup; whereas academic conferences are more about completeness, and written results.</div>
<div> <br></div></div>-- <br>Michael Davies <a href="mailto:michael@the-davies.net" target="_blank">michael@the-davies.net</a><br>Rackspace Australia
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