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Here's something that came up during the program committee meeting. While I understand why code4lib has traditionally decided on the program purely by voting, would the community support leaving maybe a couple of slots for the program committee to decide sessions? perhaps with the explicit goal to help diversify the program: whether it be by gender, ethnicity, technology/tool, point of view (e.g someone outside library/archives), etc. People tend to vote for their interest and what is familiar to them, that's only natural, but at past Access conferences for example, I have found some that I never would've voted (just based off of a description) as some of the most interesting talks I've seen. Sometimes it's the topic, sometimes it's the presenter, regardless, if we want to diversify, it's a small step to take, but one I think we should at least consider for code4libcon 2014.