I will speak to this one time and then I am done.

My attempts at advertising the vote were to make more people aware of it
and to get more votes in general. That is the democratic way. In fact
there have been comments added to these posts on our OLE blog from
code4lib members. During my time in hosting the event I met many new
comers to the conference who were unaware of the voting no matter how much
publicity we did for that for the proposals as well as for the keynotes.

I was just trying to get some publicity for the conference, especially
since I am a sponsor. If my posts are causing you problems I am glad to
change them to fit to whatever policy you may have on voting but that is
the thing this is an unconference so there are not really any policies on
voting other than an interest and a code4ilb account, and in fact this
process is confusing to first timers.

Ross is right this has not really helped our OLE proposals but it has
gotten more votes for the conference I bet and more publicity for the
upcoming conference which is as stated sold out.

Please do let me know if your policy changes and I can reflect that in
posts I use to publicize your event or if there are other policies on
publicizing your event that myself or other sponsors or even event
volunteers should know about. My efforts were only done with the best
intentions of getting the word out about your event and those of you who
know me I am sure will understand that.


Cheers

Robert


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Robert H. McDonald
Associate Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries
Associate Director, Data to Insight Center-Pervasive Technology Institute
Executive Director, Kuali OLE
Indiana University
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