Session Review

This page explains how to review session proposals and contact the presenters, if needed.

Forming a selection committee

Simple events with a small number of proposals typically rely on one person that hand-picks the sessions for the agenda, but for more complex events with hundreds of proposals you may need to put together a committee.

To invite a set of users to the selection committee of a Call for Papers:

1. Go to the edit page of your event.

2. Select the Call for Papers tab and click on the Call for Papers.

3. Select the Edit » Selection committee tab.

4. Introduce the uuid of the user that you want to add to the committee. You can add as many members as needed.

   

5. To save your changes, click the Save button.

The new members will receive an e-mail with instructions to participate in the talk selection process.

The Session Review Process

Every member of the selection committee can open the R4P page and give sessions a rating between 1 and 5. This rating is private and only visible to other users with review permissions.

While voting, you can filter the list of talk proposals by free text (searching by talk title, description, or username/bio), by state, speaker gender, or by any category assigned by you when creating the R4P. You can also sort the sessions by creation date or by rating.

Once the committee has finished voting, select “Rating” and “Descending” in the Sort by drop down to see the sessions with the highest rating first. To download the list of talk proposals, click the Download as CSV button.

Talk state

Each talk can be in one of four states:

• Not selected: This is the default state of a talk that has just been submitted.
• Selected: Sessions with this state are available when defining the final agenda. To toggle the Selected state of a talk, click the Selected / Not selected link in the talk.
• Assigned: These are sessions that have been assigned a slot in the agenda.
• Waitlisted: The session is in a waitlist, intended to be included in the agenda when a spot becomes available.

Sending E-mail

You can send communications from the R4P page. For example, to send a notification to all your selected speakers:

1. Go to the page of your R4P.
2. In the form on top, click on the Selected tag to filter only selected talks.
3. Click the E-mail button.
4. Select “Accepted talk” in the Template drop-down to display a predefined template to send to the selected speakers.
5. Modify the subject and body of the message as needed and click the Send e-mails button.

The form displays the number of users that will receive this e-mail when sent. For sessions with multiple speakers, each speaker will receive a copy of the message.

You can use notifications at any point in the lifecycle of the R4P, like to send notifications about the assigned track and time, for example. To this purpose, you can use the following variables in the subject and body of the message:

What’s next

• Add categories to your R4P
• Create and publish the event agenda
• Receive session feedback in the agenda