| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Category Evaluations |
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I was reading
my newsreader (procrastinating on sending this email) when I came
across a review
by Guy Kawasaki of a book that he really likes. Basically it
provides 50 ideas that have been proven in the lap and business
applications. In reading the review I came across this nugget: 2. Researchers found that the more options offered in a company retirement plan, the fewer people participate in that plan. Similarly, when experimenters offered only six flavors of jam, 30% of the people who approached the display bought any jam. When the experimenters offered 24 flavors, only 3% bought some. Therefore, instead of trying to offer every color, size, and price point of gizmo, you might want to reduce the choices to increase sales. Just substitute jam for category. I would like to see the number of overall categories to be reduced from the current twenty-one down to five. The best I could come up with was six categories, but I am sure that we can figure out how to get down to five. Have a look at my proposal and let me know what you think. How do we go from 6 to 5? If you don't feel that this organization does your category, please provide an alternative. (As long as you consider all the categories and not just yours). For your convenience, I have listed all of the original categories first. Then I have my proposal with a mapping of the current talks into the new categories. CURRENT CATEGORIES E4 Business Industry Director's Choice Committer and Contributor Other OSGi DevCon Runtime Java C/C++ Tools Data Tooling Emerging Technology Mobile/Embedded Modeling Eclipse as a Platform RCP Reporting SOA Test & Performance Web Tools PROPOSED CATEGORIES Runtime Platform (E4, Runtime, OSGi) UI Platform (E4, RCP) IDE Platform and Languages (Java, C/C++, Tools, Web Tools) Applied Eclipse (Data Tooling, Reporting, Modeling, SOA, TPTP) Emerging Technologies Eclipse Business (Committer and Contrib, Business, Industry, Director's Choice, Other) Scott |