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Sorry
I was not able to attend last week. Regarding my action item, I spoke
to his assistant a couple weeks ago and she informed me that he doesn't do many
speaking engagements anymore, unless it benefits the company he works for or he
finds it especially interesting. She asked me to send an email with
specific info about the conference and she would forward it on to him. I
did so but have not heard anything yet. This is probably a good thing,
since we are only now forming our track committee (3 strong, soon to be 4) and
we had not yet discussed potential keynotes.
mjb
Bjorn took the minutes on behalf of the
vacationing Tim.
Attending: Doug, Sri, Lawrence, Paul, Maher, and
perhaps one more person whose name I forgot to write down.
Status of
action items from the last meeting:
- Doug says it will take another couple weeks to track down a CIO. He's
going to work on Nortel as a good candidate.
- Sri has been talking to people but does not have any good leads yet. He
is considering IBM, Borland, Oracle, BEA, HP, and is open to other
suggestions.
- Bjorn provided an update on Eclipsezilla and some of its neat features.
The most interesting item seemed to be the fact that we can update the
website ourselves this year - Bjorn fired the company that being the
bottleneck and chose a different web contractor this year.
- Paul said that MikeB had not done his action item yet.
In new
business:
- Maher asked the group if there was a theme to this year's conference. In
2004 it was very developer focused and he wondered if there was a different
theme this year. Bjorn mumbled something, but since he's writing these
minutes, will clarify his mumble: Bjorn thinks the theme should be "the
whole community getting together to talk to the whole community". In other
words, it's about the three communities, not just one.
- There was a discussion about whether a keynote about licensing issues
would be interesting. I think the consensus was that a panel would be
better.
- There was a discussion about how many slots we have and how to allocate
them. Bjorn explained that if we have five parallel rooms, we have 55 slots
not including keynotes. One slot can hold one long talk, 6 short talks, or
one panel. There are 42 tutorial slots. The initial slot distribution will
be approximately 1/3 to each track, although it will be adjusted based on
the number of submissions, etc.
- Bjorn has sent three keynote e-introductions to Tim: Amazon.com,
Microsoft, and Motorola. When Tim gets back from vacation, he can do
something with them.
- There needs to be an eclipse.org front page announcement about
EclipseCon. Bjorn takes this action item.
- There needs to be an EclipseCon banner that sites can use on their own
sites. Bjorn takes this action item as
well.
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