I'll definitely agree with that. I've been to a few that
have even 20 people in a room for 400 and it looks really bad. I think we need
to put that number as a priority. If we have a topic that we don't think will
draw more than half of the smallest room, then it shouldn't be a candidate for
acceptance.
I think in the past we've given talks based on who was
presenting and how interesting the topic is to the members of the projects
instead of the general attendees of the conference. And there has been a
perception that the PC hasn't been fair at getting all the projects equal air
time. Too bad. That's not what EclipseCon should be about IMHO. It should be
about trying to recruit people poking around the fringes (of which there are a
lot!) to get more involved.
Doug
S.
I did. But that's a separate question from whether we maxed out the
facility :-)
I, personally, think we need fewer higher quality
sessions. We don't want those ones with 5 people in the audience. We want
enough people in the audience so that when they go grab a coffee afterwards,
they continue talking about what a great session that was and there are enough
of them that everyone else around them is envious of missing such a great
session even though their own session was great too.
Didn't you blog
about EclipseCon being just the right size, not too big to be impersonal and
yet not too small to be limiting? :-P
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