Replacing a 3 days
face to face summit by an online meeting will not benefit
the community, I think its very good if we can keep the face
to face event.
Many people dial-in
but they typically work on something else, we do not have
the evening/lunch event when people can discuss further,
etc.
Looking at other open
source projects/foundations they do a lot of co-located
events (e.g LinuxCon and Tracing Summit), I had a quick chat
with Ian from the Eclipse Foundation, he thinks it's a good
idea to co-locate the summit with EclipseCon, possibly
Thursday/Friday as long as we plan ahead to ensure we have a
conf room available at http://reston.hyatt.com
(as program chair, I am sure you can
make it happen).
Co-locating with
EclipseCon has a few benefits:
- Less travel
(EclipseCon + Summit same place/date)
- No sponsors/funding
to find
- No local logistics
(room, special events, lunch, dinner, etc.)
- more developers are
likely to come
- Reston is 8.5 hours
drive from Toronto
- etc.
The only down side I
see is it's not a good timing to plan for the next release
so we could do as you suggested i.e. an online meeting in
September but hopefully a short one maybe half a day to
start and then we can see if we need extra ones for specific
topics e.g. multi-core debug.
Co-locating with
EclipseCon seems quite future proof to me, what do you
think?
I agree. The
time is pretty short to organize a full blown summit in
September. But, we still need to have planning meetings to
set the agenda for CDT in Juno.
What I’d
like to propose is an eSummit instead using a conference
bridge and Webex. I was thinking of a block of four hours
running noon-3 Ottawa time (give or take), which allows
for evening in Europe and morning in California. We could
start with two days like that and expand if needed.
I would then
propose that we have a CDT get-together at EclipseCon next
March. We had a really nice multi-core meeting last year
and could do that for CDT in general. We could do it for a
couple of hours and be separate from the BOF which is a
more open meeting.
What do you
think?
Doug.
Hi Doug,
It's not easy
to plan/organize the CDT summit in the middle of
summer for a date in Sept/Oct:
- many people
are on vacation, it's hard to get developers to
register;
- organizing
the logistic in the middle of summer was not easy for us
last year again because of many people on vacations and
it was hard to get big conf room for Sept;
- in July many
people are already booked for business trips in the
fall e.g. myself, Elena, Marc, etc. if know more in
advanced it will be easier to plan around the summit
date;
- fall is a
busy time of the year for many people, May/June is the
Eclipse release crunch and March is EclipseCon...;
To get more
developers to join the summit we could either:
- do the
plan/organization after the Eclipse release and held the
summit in Dec/Jan
- do the
plan/org in May and held the summit in Sept/Oct
- looking back
at last March EclipseCon we could investigate if we can
do it Thursday and Friday (http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/program/?programdate=2011-03-24)
- we could
even investigate if we can do it together with the GCC
summit (http://www.gccsummit.org)
Best Regards,
Dominique
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Schaefer, Doug
Sent: 8-Jul-11 14:20
To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cdt-dev] Summit 2011
Hey gang,
Just a reminder to sign up for CDT
Summit 2011 at http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/summitfall2011.
Notice a few signed up already. The more that show
interest, the more we’ll realize we really need to have
one again J.
Cheers,
Doug.
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