Re: [Tccc] presentations by non-authors

Hi,

I'm happy to have stimulated an interesting discussion. But it's becoming fragmented. Could I ask folks that want to discuss one of the following topics (all of which have spun off the original "presentations by non-authors" topic) to please use *different* "subject" lines:

* cost of attendance from developing countries / in general
* mixed presentation quality
* whether the community is too split/too large
* reputation system
* too few interested people in the session & too little Q&A time
* etc.

It's not that I'm not interested in these issues - for many of them, I am. It's just that it's becoming difficult to follow the discussion.

On the original topic, I was interested to hear that EDAS allows marking of presenters as no-show, and I like the suggestion of adding a "show-non-author" category. It would allow generating some state about how frequently this happens.

But that doesn't really solve the problem, because it's too late in the process. Ideally, the organizers (or EDAS) need to flag when the person registering to give the presentation is not one of the authors. It should then be possible to send a mail to that person and the authors that'd say "Hi, we notice that the presenter of the paper is not an author, and this is discouraged. Would you please let us know why this is needed in this case? Thanks."

This policy - for venues that want to use it - would also need to be called out in the CFP, so there is no late surprise.

Lars