Four kinds of talk proposals that get rejected from !!Con

1 · Lindsey Kuper · March 31, 2018, 7:49 p.m.
It’s that time of year again: I’m working on organizing !!Con (“bang bang con”), the conference of lightning talks about the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing that’s held each May in New York. This month, the !!Con team reviewed nearly 300 (!) submissions that we received in response to our 2018 call for talk proposals. In addition to the letter grades that each reviewer gives to each proposal, this year I also tried to write a sentence or two for each talk I reviewed, explaining why ...