RE: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Budget and slotall ocatio

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for grouping.  I also really
liked the idea of 4 short talks and one short slot for a "mini-panel"

Jeff

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Now that I think about (instead
of responding before thinking :P), I would prefer to see the short talks
grouped by subject area. I know Bjorn loves the sampling idea, but that’s
where I have trouble. People wouldn’t mind sitting through an hour with
4 short talks if it they were all related. It seems last year we made an
effort at this since I remember sitting through one session they were mostly
related.
 
Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com

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I got similar feedback. And,
actually attending some of them, I found it hard to get value out of them,
other than somewhere to go to read e-mail. But I do understand that there’s
way more talks than hour long spaces so I’m not sure what the right answer
is.
 
Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com

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Last year it seemed like it
was pretty difficult to ‘sell’ the short talks.  I tried to pitch
some people on them, and the feedback I got was that ten minutes was just
not enough time to put together material.  Did anyone else have this
experience?  Did we get any feedback if 10 minutes is the right length?
 Does it make sense maybe to give 15 minutes each (three per hour)?
 
 
Scott

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Subject: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Budget and slotallocations
 
EclipseCon Program Committee,
As you are all probably aware, the number of talk slots and the budget
are linked: more talk slots means more rooms we need to rent, more AV we
need to rent, more door monitors, and more comp registrations to give away.
In doing the budget for Mike to present to the Finance Committee, here's
what I've come up with for the slot allocations:

• Tutorials: 80 in 20 parallel sessions on Monday. Each is two hours and is entitled to two comp registrations. (It is really important that the tutorials have *hands on results* that the attendees can take away. It's a lot of work to prepare a good tutorial and that's why they get two comp registrations.)
• Long talks: 80 in 5 parallel sessions on each of Tue-Wed-Thu. One hour (50 minutes) and has one comp registration.
• Short talks: 160 in 2 parallel sessions on each of Tue-Wed-Thu. 10 minutes and has a 20% discount registration coupon. (10 minutes = 1/5 of 50 minutes; 20% = 1/5 of 100%).

I
spoke to Doug yesterday and he pointed out that these are different numbers
than the preliminary numbers I had given him (the maximum space capacity
numbers) and, yes, they are. He said that he would re-do the allocations.

Additionally, here are the relevant dates:

• Sept 24 - Eclipsezilla opens
• Nov 19 - submissions close for all types
• Dec 10 - program 90% completed (basically, the program is completed but we might leave a few slots open for late breaking items)
• Feb 7 - program 100% complete

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