Hi folks,
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=200405
– Adding Jeff to the program committee
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=200406
– Wiki access for all!
Meeting Notes (https://www.eclipsecon.org/wiki/EclipseCon_2008_Program_Committee/PC_Minutes_17Aug07)
are copied below. Action items are in bold. Please review.
AI: Track leads: Write up track description to help
submitters select their desired track. Due Aug 31 (2 weeks).
AI: DougG to make contact with Sam Ramji.
AI: Scott to find material on Bob Sutton to see if
he's a good speaker.
AI: Jeff to find the name of the violinist speaker.
AI: PC to look into the list of suggested keynote
speakers and vote and possibly suggest alternatives.
AI: Jeff and Chris to put their "wish list"
together for topics and see where they have overlap.
Doug
Program Committee Minutes - 17 August 07
- Attendees
- Donald Smith
- Doug Schaefer
- John Graham
- Doug Gaff
- Richard Gronback
- Scott Rosenbaum
- Chris Aniszczyk
- Boris Bokowski
- Oisin Hurley
- Oliver Cole
- David Williams
- Brief Introductions
- Name, company, goals for the track
- Common themes were more end-user content,
highlighting new features and projects
- Charter
and function of the program committee & discussion of additional
members
- DougG reviewed with the group.
- Question: can we get feedback from previous
conferences? AI for Bjorn below.
- AI: Track leads: Write up track
description to help submitters select their desired track. Due Aug 31 (2
weeks).
- EclipseCon
Format
- Tutorial discussion
- DougG explained that the conference was
Mon-Thurs. (Originally we thought it might be Sun - Wed).
- Discussion about when to do tutorials.
Scott suggested Thursday, although folks preferred to keep them on
Monday given the intensity of the material.
- David suggested that we also have
tutorials throughout the week (2 hour slots). These would be
user-focused instead of developer focused and would be included as part
of the conference cost (not the tutorial cost). Folks liked this idea.
So Monday would be developer focused and the rest of the week would be
user-focused. DougG said it was a good idea, but it's essential for the
track leads to come up with the right material for this.
- Keynotes
- Format: humorist, open source, misc technology.
No comments from group.
- Ian:
- Lawrence Lessig (Code, The Future of
Ideas) - retired
- Guy Kawasaki (The Art of Start)
- Christopher Prezeau (Tele Atlas)
- Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu)
- Kathy Sierra - retired
- Henry Chesborough (Open
Innovation) – either Henry or Clayton
- Clayton Christensen (Innovator's
Dilemma)
- Planning Council thought he'd be good,
but expensive
- Bill Hiff (Microsoft - heads open source
initiatives)
- Not available, but he suggested Sam
Ramji. Mike M said "Sam's a good guy."
- AI: Doug to make contact with Sam
Ramji.
- Donald
- Seth Godin (Entrepreneur / Author)
– marketing-centric, maybe still interesting
- See a video
of him speaking.
- Ralph:
- Suggested someone from VC to talk about
VC support of OSS
- Mike
- Paul Graham (Popular blogger, among other
things) – Bjorn says he’s not a very good speaker, though.
- Ward/Bjorn
- DougG's preferences:
- Guy (humor), Sam (open source), Cory
- Scott
- Bob Sutton (No
Asshole Rule) - not tolerating prima donnas - AI: Scott to find
material on Bob Sutton to see if he's a good speaker.
- Jeff
- Heard a funny speaker at IBM event - a
violinist who drew connections between music and technology. Jeff to
find the name of the violinist speaker.
- AI: PC to look into the list of
suggested keynote speakers and vote and possibly suggest alternatives.
- Talks
- DougG talked about the grouping Long
Talks, Demos, and Panels into Long Talks to be used how the track lead
sees fit.
- DougG talked about Bjorn's idea for
10/30/60 minute talks. Not much discussion, though.
- Discussion: How do we handle commercial
talks?
- Gold Sponsors get a long talk
- Exhibit Hall - perhaps setup a mini
theatre for show and tell - could also do it during the conference and
at times when the exhibit floor is closed. DougG suggested that the
demos be technical, e.g. "here what we've extended in
Eclipse", "here are the plug-ins we provide". Try to
draw the technical crowd.
- Don: also a possibility of "Developer
Day" sponsorship by individual companies.
- Schedule
- DougG reviewed the schedule.
- Ideally it would be nice to have the
keynotes picked by the end of August, but that will be tough. Hopefully
by mid-September.
- Next Meeting (not discussed)
- Prefer Thurs or Fridays - once per month.
Everything else done on email.
- Sept 6 or 7
- Oct 4 or 5
- Nov 1 or 2
- Nov 15 or 16
- Dec 6 or 7
- Dec 13 or 14
- Post-meeting talk with with Jeff and Chris
- Topic: Platform track, Equinox, and Eclipse
as a Runtime.
- Questions:
- How wide should the Platform track be?
- Where does Equinox fit?
- How do we ensure eclipse as a runtime is
covered?
- Equinox (OSGi related, provisioning,
server side)
- SwordFish
- ECF
- eRCP
- EMF
- RCP related
- PDE runtime tooling
- Doug suggested that Jeff work with the
other track leads to make sure the runtime components that fall into the
other tracks are covered.
- The open question was whether to create a
separate track (Equinox) for everything else?
- AI: Jeff and Chris to put their
"wish list" together for topics and see where they have
overlap.
- Questions for Bjorn
- The mailing list and the wiki are not
public. Doug explained the philosophy behind this. However, if you follow
the pattern for other mailing lists, you can get to the archive: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee/maillist.html.
Is this an issue?
- Is it acceptable if the track leads decide
they want extra talk slots in the hotel? DougG and the track leads seem
fine with having the conference extend into the hotel to make sure we can
cover enough topics.
- Where can we get feedback from previous
EclipseCon's?
- Can we get attendance details for the
tutorial / conference attendance?
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