If only the decision makers were able to find the guts to make selections based on past performance and reviews, (basic human intuition stuff) instead of utilizing bureaucracy derived from a sense of “being fair”, (when was the last time life was fair?) then they would likely find more support from the type of speakers they wanted to showcase.

One of the very reasons I stopped submitting to FileMaker for speaking at Devcon is because they started treating everyone like they never knew them – quite silly when you wouldn’t do this to a real person in real life. Only when you have corporate bureaucracy to hide behind. Of course, I’m sure the committee has a good reason for not taking the common sense route. If everyone submits a video then they can see if a presenter gets worse as the years progress.

Maybe I’ll get over my distaste for the “new process” in my older years and submit for next year.

Yeah – I know – - who would have thought it. Mark Twain using slang. Crazy, huh?

I remember seeing this the first time and it is still pretty amusing.