Welcome back to our EclipseCon 2006 program committee telecons.
We have quite a bit to catch up on today and our keynote deadline is
approaching. As a reminder, callin info is 1-888-722-7907, 9262945# at 10am PDT
/ 1pm EDT today.
 
 - Procedural issues
  - Doug unable to make call today
- Introduce Simon Archer of IBM
      as a new user-track committee member
- Confirm telecon schedule for
      September (remaining Friday’s, this time slot)
- Establish October telecon schedule
- AI’s from previous call,
      apart from keynote solicitation
   - eclipse.org front page
       announcement (Bjorn)
- EclipseCon banner for other
       sites to use (Bjorn)
- Review of public (published) deadlines and internal (acceptance)
     dates
  - Drop dead dates for *us*
   - 10/1 keynotes
- 11/15 tutorials
- 12/15 all other talks
- We need to decide on the
      handling of public deadlines for the latter two.
- Keynote speakers
  - Available
   - John and Erik’s “state
       of Eclipse” talk
- Greg Stein (or possibly Geir)
       from Apache SF
- Andy Carmichael (“Better
       Software Faster”)
- Proposed (availability
      uncertain)
- Other ideas
   - Ron Crocker (Motorola),
       proposed by Bjorn
- CIO (Doug’s AI –
       maybe Nortel? update may not be avail for this call.)
- eBay (suggestion from Ian)
- Developer Track status / Borland
      update (Sri)
- User Track status (Paul)
- Business Track status (Maher)
- Tutorial progress report
  - Review of current status in
      EclipseConZilla
- Additional plans to solicit
      content?
- Technical talks
  - “Reservation”
      system for top-level projects?
- Open discussion of what we
      should do to solicit abstracts
- Other matters
  - EclipseCon on agenda for
      member conference in Chicago;
      will ask Ian to help solicit content (and content suggestions) from addin
      provider community in particular
- any additional agenda items