Attending: Tim, Paul,
Doug, Gunnar, Ed, Lawrence, Sri
Regrets:
Simon
Modifications to list
below: No commercial category, merge CDT with languages, Maybe add a “Top 10”,
Carve out an “experience” session
Homework:
Over the next two weeks all PC members should
- Read through the short talk
submissions
- Add/modify keywords (create
additional keywords as needed – I’ll seed them with the set from our call
today)
- Comment, vote, and otherwise
clarify short talk submissions via EclipseZilla
- Solicit additional content (from
long talk conversions or elsewhere) as needed to round out a session. (I’m
particularly thinking of trying for a complete business session; the other
ones we can “pack” with two smaller tracks.)
- Send email to the PC with
questions, concerns, ideas about regrouping etc. – we need to go into the
meeting on Feb 3rd ready to finalize the short
talks.
AIs
[Tim]:
- Check with Bjorn on whether the
PC is involved in anything else (demos, posters, etc.); otherwise short
talks are the only remaining items.
- Assuming answer to above is
“no”, cancel calls on 1/20 and 1/27; extend the call on 2/3 to 2 hours to
finalize short talk portion of program.
- Get EclipseZilla modified to
support the following to enable short talk categorization to be carried
out:
- keyword column for export in
CSV
- keyword column option in
“Change Columns” page
- Verify with Erin or Nancy that
long talk declines will occur today so that we can prod their submitters to
convert to short talks.
- Collect suggestions for short
talk suggestions for a mass mailing. (So far I’ve only received two; if you
have more, please send them.)
Let me know if I
missed anything.
From: Tim
Wagner
Sent: Friday, January
13, 2006 9:18 AM
To:
Eclipsecon Program Committee list
Subject: reminder: call today,10am
PST
Agenda:
Short talk program organization,
review of existing short talk submissions
Call info:
Call info: 866-214-3176, 8870689#.
International dialin is US 404-827-9098
I took a look through the short
talk submissions last night; most were high quality, but there’s a category of
“gee, this sounds a lot like a product demo/ad” so we’ll need to review our
litmus test for what counts a commercial plug versus a legitimate conference
presentation.
We’ll talk about the
categorization of talks on the call; as a preview, here are some of the
buckets that sounded possible to me:
- New Technologies:
Talks on technology projects and other emerging/new ideas that involve
Eclipse.
- EMF: There were
several talks on EMF topics.
- Languages: 3 or 4
talks had a language bias.
- Plugsin Gone Wild:
SOA plugins, native code plugins, JVMs as plugins,
etc.
- Admin/Deploy/Production: Talks
related to either using Eclipse as an admin/deploy console or deploying
Eclipse itself within the enterprise
- Build: 2-3 talks
had a strong build focus
- RCP: So many talks
in this category that we would either need multiple tracks or break it down
further
- CDT: ~3 talks on
CDT topics
- Business: ~3
business talks. We might be able to find a couple more if we want to try to
fill up a “Business Track” room.
- Test and Perf: TPTP
and other testing/per/monitoring infrastructure
- Then there was a
large “misc” category that seemed like it would benefit from further
breakdown…perhaps “Cool Apps” to collect some experience and application
papers, and if we want to permit some of the more commercial-flavored talks,
then they might be grouped into a category, etc.
