Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Category Evaluations

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

(For some reason, I seem to only be
getting Peter's responses to the list and not Scott's original posts).

Btw, if you want the full story on the
jam experiment, this is a great book I'm just finishing:
http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005696/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1218547648&sr=8-1

Its a good point that less categories
are probably helpful.  There is always the anxiety of submitting your
talk to the wrong category if there are too many.

I wonder if we need this split though:
 Runtime Platform  (E4, Runtime,
OSGi)
 UI Platform (E4, RCP)

I think the division we want to emphasize
is Tools vs. Runtime, where runtime is both headless services as well as
UI.  This is the important "Eclipse isn't just about tools"
message.  We have a tools category below, so now we just need "non-tools
platform" as a category.  Do people think its important to further
split the platform category into headless v.s. UI?

Regards,
Kevin

Peter Kriens <peter.kriens@xxxxxxxxx>
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Can we please keep OSGi DevCon as a separate entity?

Kind regards,

Peter Kriens

On 7 aug 2008, at 22:20, Scott Rosenbaum wrote:

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


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