| Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Budget and slot allocations |
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Chris, Given that the cost is the same for 5 shorts versus 1 long, the Program Committee can make that trade-off. However, I disagree with your statement that "conference goers would benefit more from more long talks". One of the main purposes of EclipseCon is to get the community together to talk to each other. EclipseCon is *not* a rock star style conference where we have the experts lecturing to the masses. One of the advantages of short talks is to provide a lot more opportunity for the community members to speak to the rest of the community members. I don't want to see a conference where we have the same N Eclipse Top-Level Project team members and the same N Web Tools team members and the same N BIRT team members talking about their work. There's a lot more going on under the Eclipse umbrella than just the core. The core is important (that's why there are long talks and tutorials) but the rest is important too. Also note that there are effectively the same number of long talks and short talks if you note that there are 80 tutorials (very long talks) and 80 long talks (= 160) and that tutorials are free this year. So everyone gets to go to the 160 long talks and everyone gets to go to the 160 short talks. - Bjorn Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
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