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Assemble the Program Committee #9

Closed katyhuff closed 7 years ago

katyhuff commented 10 years ago

The first task as program committee chairs is the assembly of the rest of the program committee. This consists of two groups, the mini-symposium chairs and the abstract reviewers.

From the program committee manual :

Mini-symposium chairs should be recruited as soon as possible. The mini-symposium address scientific python in a domain-specific sub-community. It is the mini-symposium chair's role to encourage participation from their community, select talks for the session, and organize the content of the session. The content and organization of the session is left up to the discretion of the mini-symposium chair. In the past, they have consisted of a series of talks, panel discussion, "state of the community", or a combination of the above. Since a large amount of growth of the conference comes from the recruitment in these sub-domains, it is important to get the mini-symposium chair engaged early on.

The duties of reviewers on the program committee are not as extensive as the mini-symposium chairs, but they are very important. A large number of reviewers are required to address the increasing number of submissions. The number of reviewers to be recruited can be computed as:

r = s * 3 / (10  * (1 - a))

where r is the number of people to recruit as reviewers, s is the expected number of submissions, and a is the expected attrition rate. Each submission should have three reviews, and ten reviews is a reasonable expectation from a reviewer. The attrition rate depends on the set of reviewers -- it is approximately 0.3.

katyhuff commented 7 years ago

closing for age. Handled in 2014.