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

[Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ed,
Wrong answer :-)

Ed Merks wrote:

I suppose that for any of these things, if the slots are really over allocated, that will become clear by the number of quality submissions; unused slots will be obviously redistributed...

Jeff said it best last year, but in essence: the distribution of slots is based what we want the conference to be, not what the set of submissions happens to be. I.e., just because lots of people want to talk about IDEs for COBOL doesn't mean that we want to have lots of talks about COBOL, n'est pas? If the submission quality is low in an area we want to emphasize, we have to step out and recruit good talks for that area.

- Bjorn

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