We want to thank you for taking the time to submit a talk at WordCamp Nordic. We appreciate you applying to speak.
For the first ever WordCamp Nordic we have got a huge number of submissions (149 submissions!). So many suggested talks are exceptional and highly valuable. It makes us very happy and also we understand that it’s going to be very difficult to make the speaker selections and narrow it down to around 24 speaking positions.
Speaker Selection Process
Since all team members are organizing the event from the different countries, we agreed on using Trello as our project management tool. We are going to anonymize the selection process. After reviewing the bio, talks, and website by speakers committee, all talks will be added to Trello only using the Talk Title, Description, and Topic. The team will go through and review the talks. As a result, we will select the best fit and order the talks to create the individual tracks.
We are sure that this will help to create the best possible event without prejudice. Such approach ensures we evaluate the talks based on topic and fit with the tracks only. Thus fame, experience level, race, gender or any other identifying factor doesn’t influence the decision.
All speakers with multiple talks with have a special mark so that only one talk from each speaker would be added to the track.
Selection Notifications
Every person who submitted a talk for WordCamp Nordic 2019 will hear from speakers committee, no later than January 17, letting you know the status of the submission talk.
All selected speakers will be asked to complete their acceptance interview no later than January 24, 2019. Any sessions not confirmed by January 24 will be given to the alternative submissions selected. WordCamp is important to us and we want it to be important to our speakers too.
If you have any questions or concerns about the application process, please get in touch.