Tim and all,
Ward and I had a conversation with John Kellerman yesterday on a
separate topic, but it sequed to this one:
- I also received a belated
request from the platform project (Kevin
Haaland): “I
didn't see any talks or tutorials from SWT and I think we need to find
room in the schedule for one.” I see #33 (http://canuck.gda.itesm.mx/eclipsezilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33),
so we can discuss whether there are other candidates and whether to
pursue this request.
We told John that you all had looked at the submissions and chosen a
program. And that there were a few slots for "late breaking things",
but that none of the existing talks qualified as interesting enough for
those slots. And that if the Platform team could come up with a
compelling/interesting talk, something that the audience wouldn't be
able to find out from reading the Javadoc, help, or articles, then that
might be compelling enough for the PC to use one of those slots.
I think we should be careful not to give any one group special
treatment, i.e., the Platform/SWT team had the same advance notice as
everyone else about submitting long talk proposals and they chose not
to do so. Thus for them to get a talk in now, they are going to need to
demonstrate something well above the bar - the same that any other
arriving talk would need to demonstrate.
Just my thoughts,
Bjorn
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