Dear Lodewijk,
We also intend to publish by default the settings of
the montage jury
tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national
competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an
opt-out for this year.
This is unrealistic, because jury process may involve
several campaigns
that are later merged together (in Russia, we do it all the time in
order to meet your submission deadline). Moreover, some of the photos
can be accepted for the next round within Montage but excluded later on
if we find that they do not depict cultural heritage. The end result is
that any number you take from Montage will not match the number of
photos that we publish (e.g., as a short-list). This will only lead to
confusion and won't be of any use for anyone.
Since you mentioned Montage, let me also ask when two important pull
requests, which were done by one of our team members, are going to be
merged into the code:
https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/169
https://github.com/hatnote/montage/pull/175
These are really, really important fixes. Without them I would have a
problem creating new Montage campaigns in October.
Sincerely,
Alexander
On 9/2/2020 11:49 PM, effe iets anders wrote:
Hi all,
over the past years, we have had various requests to encourage
national organizers to be transparent in their judging processes and
who sits on their jury. Most of the national organizers are currently
transparent about this already. In the past weeks/month, more
conversation around this has continued with some concerns (valid or
not) on certain jury processes.
In this light, the international team intends to institute a new
expectation for national organizers, namely to publish the members of
their jury (be it their username or real life name) at some point. We
have not figured out the practical details yet, but I can imagine that
while we encourage publication on the website, we would ask national
organizers to add a list of jury members to their submission to the
international jury - which we then will publish as well.
We also intend to publish by default the settings of the montage jury
tool, and the number of photos in each round that the national
competitions have used. We're debating whether there should be an
opt-out for this year.
We will of course apply at least the same level of transparency to the
international jury.
Before we make this decision, I would like to ask for feedback on
this, and whether there are edge cases we should consider where
such transparency would be harmful. I'll take 1 week to gather some
feedback on this, and then we'll make a final decision. You can
respond to this on this mailing list, or privately to me.
Warmly,
Lodewijk
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