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Hi Jon. That’s not enough to get overcome bias. Any statistician will tell you you need to introduce randomness. Please consider opening at least ONE talk to new speakers. Please also consider helping and coaching them. It would be a huge help to the community.
My thoughts on this haven't changed. A CfP is not random. It is another opportunity that's more accessible for the privileged, and is subject to its own systemic biases rather than my own. There are already about 20 Scala conferences per year which do run by CfPs. Mine doesn't.
Scala World always described itself as an "advanced" Scala conference, and it's not a conference for inexperienced speakers. I work with the invited speakers over the months before the conference to help them focus their topics to make sure the full programme fits well together.
I made a decision last year that I didn't want to create a clique of Scala World speakers, so I banned 2015 speakers from speaking in 2016, and further restricted the pool of candidates in 2017 to try to keep the programme fresh. Only two people (one is me) have spoken twice.
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