Hello
Currently, we’ve a mechanism to vote on proposed talks in IndiaFOSS but it does not show the intent of people voting for a given talk - tricking votes, accidental votes and more are possible. Further, we have no way to know if the people voting for these talks have any intent of actually attending the event.
What if we could tie votes on CFPs with purchased IndiaFOSS tickets ? It would ensure that actual voice of people attending the event is heard and is not polluted by random noise.
Looks like I misunderstood your question in the devroom managers meet. There is a “like” button on the proposals. However, it does not carry any weightage in the review process for IndiaFOSS in the main track. I don’t think devrooms have used that as input. The hardware devroom had community voting on a different platform.
Yes, I’m aware that the current like button does not represent any weightage, although a like button tied to tickets have the potential to show actual interest of the attendees.
I could experiment this in the security devroom if we can find a way to identify if the given ticket is unique & valid or not.
Tickets may be purchased without a login. Bulk ticket purchases are also possible - and not uncommon. Do have a look at the ticket sales stats. More than 50% of tickets are yet to be sold. We also allow ticket transfers. All these will make things more interesting 
Access to data of ticket sales may also be problematic.
My general recommendation is that selections must ideally not be based on voting. Larger the number of proposals for any track, harder it is to rely on the audience to pick winners. Making a track interesting for a diverse audience is a small undertaking in itself. In the devrooms, that’s falls on reviewers and managers. In the main track we rely on a diverse set of reviewers and a small program commitee.
I think this issue relates to this: Distinguish reviewer comments for organizing team vs reviewer comments for proposers · Issue #1543 · fossunited/fossunited · GitHub
Bigger plan would be to allow public (platform users) to also give constructive feedback or show interests.
Even though likes aren’t used in the CPF review process, shouldn’t liking be limited to users with an account? As it is now, anyone can manipulate the like count just by changing their IP address.
I’m fairly certain they can do the same by creating new accounts.
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Yes not a final solution but more friction than just changing ip