Jeff,
I think Google calendar allows you to set an entry so it produces a
popup reminder; you can even control how many minutes ahead of time it
pops up. I think such reminders are a good idea; I certainly set it
for any calendar entries I create on my own calendar. Perhaps Scott
would consider modifying the entries to include a notification. For
folks who might not know about it, I use "Lightning" and "Provider for
Google Calendar" add-ons for Thunderbird and it's really quite nice.
Jeff McAffer wrote:
Sigh, I too am a calendar loser. My calendar is linked to the google
calendar but there does not appear to be a way to get warnings. As a
result, I worked right through this...
Perhaps Boris and I should cross notify each other to ensure we don't
miss the next meeting.
My sincere apologies.
Jeff
Boris Bokowski wrote:
Apologies for missing the call, I made a mistake when copying
the
Google calendar information to my main calendar. I will make sure that
this does not happen again.
I am only a Java developer :)
Boris
 Scott Rosenbaum
<scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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)
passcode 874551#
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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