Guys,
Wanted to give you a heads up on what I am planning on
trying to recruit for the conference. The program will still be made up
of content that is submitted by the community. The big change this year
is that they have asked that we actively recruit quality content. I
intend to look for submissions by asking for submissions from the community
through the Web Page, Newsgroup, and BIRT World.
We do not have as many slots this year, but I think that we
got our fair share of the conference program. The committee is holding
out a fair number of slots for exceptional submissions that over flow the
appropriate slot. If we have quality presentations submitted then we can’t
handle with our track allocation, there is a chance that we will still be able
to get them into the conference program.
Keeping that in mind, I want to have a bit of a wish list in
terms of what I am looking for. I have more content listed then will fit,
but I think it provides some guidelines as to what we are looking for.
Could you review and let me know if there are any items that
you really would like to see featured in the conference that are not
represented here? We can discuss this next week on Monday if that is
easier.
Scott
Tutorials (3 allocated two hours
each)
- Basic
- Integration / Report Engine
- Integration / Design Engine
- Extension (Data Extension to be
covered under Data Tools)
- Charting
Long Talks (4
allocated one hour each)
- Introduction to BIRT
- Customer Success Story
- Advanced BIRT Report Dev (DataCube/Pivot,
Expressions, Event Handlers, Libs, and CSS)
- Charting
- Integration (Report Engine /
Design Engine)
Short Talks (1
hour – 5 talks allocated ten minutes each)
- Features Hour (Recruit four of
the team leads to discuss various product features, I have four
suggestions but would want to select from the conference submissions).
- Parameters & Script
- Charts
- Re-Use (Libs & Styles)
- Layout
- Features Q&A
- Customer Hour
- Four stories from our customers
on how they used BIRT. (ten minutes each)
- Followed by a joint Q&A
with the four customers and one team member.
- customer Q&A
