Talk Voting

What it is

Community voting allows all PyCon attendees to take part in the voting process, which ultimately decides which of the talks submitted during the Call For Paper will become part of the schedule.

Until PyCon Due, the voting process was carried out internally by organizers only. As an experiment, for PyCon Tre it will be open for all attendees, therefore making PyCon even more a conference of the community for the community.

Who

Community voting is open to anyone who bought a ticket before the end of the voting process; beware the payment must be received by the Association within the end of community voting, otherwise you won't be able to access it.

NOTE: potential speakers who submitted a talk proposal aren't automatically granted access to the community voting: to access it, they must anyway purchase a ticket within the end of community voting.

When & How

Check the conference calendar for the start and end date of the voting process. To cast a vote, you must log into AssoPy and access the Voting section. For each talk, you will be able to cast a vote between 1 and 5 "stars". The voting method will be published at the end of the community voting. NOTE: If you don't vote some talks, a default vote of "3" will be assigned to them.

What

Votes are cast on all talk proposals submitted during the Call For Paper. It should be noted that in addition to these, the schedule will host anyway the sponsored talks (carefully screened by organizers on the technical level, to avoid bare commercial and/or advertisement talks) and invitation talks, presented by important international speakers explicitly invited by organizers to attend PyCon.

To simplify things, sponsored and invitation talks will not be subject to community voting.

Finalizing schedule

At the end of the community voting, organizers will gather to finalize the schedule, following the preferences expressed by the attendees.

It's impossible to determine the number of available schedule slots in advance, because that number depends on how many talks will have the "keynote" status (and will therefore be held in the main room, with no other talk in the same slot), and on how long each talk will last (there are three possible durations: 90", 60", 45"). As a reference, PyCon Tre hosted 37 talks (including sponsored and invitation talks).

Obviously, during the finalization of the schedule, best placements will be given to talks that were most successful during the community voting.

Buying multiple tickets

If you buy more than one ticket with one account (e.g. a company buying ticket for three of its employees), you can allow each people to join the community voting with AssoPy's ticket transfer procedure. Example:

• Alice buys two tickets: one for her, one for Bob.
• Alice sees two ticket in her account, and can modify them (for example, adding the information that will be printed on each attendee's badge), but for the time being only her can join the voting.
• To allow Bob to cast its vote, Alice must ask Bob to register on AssoPy and give her his chosen username.
• Alice edits Bob's ticket and clicks on "Transfer ticket", specifying Bob's username.
• Now Bob will see his own badge in his account view; he will therefore be able to add his badge information and join the community voting.