Comments on: Oracle Open World 2008 Sessions — Vote on Oracle Mix

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:48:36 +0000

Sreekanth, as far as I know, there is no call for papers for Oracle Open World just like there was no one last years. Unlike user group conferences, OOW is organized by Oracle itself and, ultimately, they decide which papers should be presented. Most of the OOW program has been dictated by Oracle or done in partnership with customers and other vendors as far as I know but there are certain number of sessions accepted from various user groups.

By: Sreekanth

Sreekanth — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:02:53 +0000

Alex,
is this the only way to sumbit the papers for OOW 2008 ? I have been waiting for “Call for Papers”

By: Sreekanth

Sreekanth — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:02:06 +0000

Alex,
Is is the only way to sumbit papers for OOW 2008? i have been waiting for “Call for Papers”.

thanks,
Sreekanth

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:37:07 +0000

Well, you can’t really identify whether Oracle Mix accounts correspond to the real people. One can register many times and vote for their own proposal. The only problem, besides that it’s plain cheating, is that one might end up with the presentation that nobody is interested in.

That’s a nightmare of every presenter to present a virtually empty room. I won’t wish that to anyone. Though, free pass would be due. Not that I care about it - Oracle ACE’s get free passes anyway. ;-)

By: jason arneil

jason arneil — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:24:57 +0000

It is amusing to see, both your abstract and my own proposal are currently both getting outvoted by a talk with the title “Database” and the enigmatic abstract “TO KNOW”

Hey, I guess that is democracy for you.