My secret for time zones is always leave out the middle initial.
ET, PT, CT… I find most people will understand that it’s in
the current time- mode without hassle J
Unfortunately I am double-booked at 11.
Here is what my general feedback would be:
-
Less is the new more. Fewer talks = better program. I’ve
noticed this as a trend in other conferences too. I see we’re
proposing to whack 1 concurrent track, but how about halving it?
-
Keynotes – I like the proposed style of 2-somes and not
dolling out big bucks for a brand-name speaker of questionable value. As
much as I loved Scott Adams and Dan Lyons, I will definitely want to see Tim
Wagner and Jeff Barr too.
-
Regarding Community and Communications Keynote – One Idea
is to ask someone from Blizzard’s WorldOfWarcraft Community team.
It’s a catchy-cool group that has 10,000,000+ users. They are huge
XUL/LUA fans and have really done some innovative things with add-ons. To
be honest, I think what they’ve done is way more impressive than Mozilla
Firefox’s plugin community. If anyone thinks this is a good idea,
let me know and I’ll see if I can find a way in to ask.
-
Don
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Subject: Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] First Meeting
Sorry
at a conference and left my brain in Minnesota. All times are Daylight
savings time.
scott
Scott Rosenbaum wrote:
All,
Sorry for the confusion the time is:
10am EST
9am CST
8am MST
7am PST
I would do more but I am only a report developer.
Scott
Jeff McAffer wrote:
Minor clarification. The call is at 10am *EST*
correct? The google calendar has it at that time.
Jeff
Scott Rosenbaum wrote:
EclipseCon Program Committee,
The first program committee is scheduled for Tuesday, August 5 at 10 am
CST. The call in info is:
+1.613.287.8000 (Ottawa and international) or
866.362.7064 (toll-free North America)
We will be referring to this google
spread-sheet during the presentation please let me know if you can not see
the sheet and I will send it as Excel.
See below for the agenda (hopefully we can keep this to 30 minutes).
Scott Rosenbaum
Calendar
Program
- One fewer concurrent session - less is more
- Tutorials are four hours instead of two - more opportunity
to have hands on time. Invite commercial learning companies.
- Moderated short talks versus open short talks
- Short talk sessions are cohesive.
- Moderator can change numbers of
presenters (e.g. could be 1 long talk - discouraged)
- Moderator adds consistency and flow,
guides Q&A makes speaker intros
- Main Stage Presentations - save this for the very best
talks for your category
Session Allocations
- Two new categories: Runtime and E4
- Reserved category: a pool of un-allocated sessions that
will be given to the best remaining talks Group Vote
- Fewer concurrent sessions + two new categories + reserved
category = Fewer Sessions per Category
- Goal was to be fair
- There is no limit on the number of reserved talks that a
category can pick up
Committee Responsibilities
- Create a category plan / description
- Recruit exceptional speakers
- Recruit moderators for short talks
- Promote, recruit others to promote
- Read submissions
- provide feedback
- consolidate, combine, and downgrade (Tutorial
to long, long to short)
- Fill Category allocations
- Suggest entries for Reserved Sweepstake
Keynotes
- Each keynote will be a discussion between two domain
experts
- Wanted to bring it back to subjects that are more relevant
for our community.
- The Future of IDE: Tim Wagner & Kevin McGuire
- Cloud Computing: Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services
with AWS client Heroku (Rails deployment)
- Community and Communications: Clay Shirky and ...
QUALITY, QUALITY, QUALITY
- The program committee is responsible for presentation
quality
- The expectations for what you get
for being there are going up
- Expertise alone does not make a good
presentation
- A good subject will not overcome a
boring or un-prepared presenter
- How do we get not only good subjects, but great
presenters?
- There is no excuse for not being prepared, or not having a
good presentation
- Can we combine good presenters with strong technical
experts (who may not speak as well)
- Do we want a references section as part of the submission
system?
- Can we implement a presentation review system? (new
presenters only?)
- Tutorials only?
- Main Stage too?
Next Meeting
- Category Descriptions - Complete?
- Review submission system & discuss logistics
- Main stage speaker ideas?
- New Conference Ideas
- how do we achieve more "You had to
be there" moments
- Try an Ignite Eclipse (a la Ignite)
track
- Try Eclipse
Karakoe
- Try Conference
speed dating
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