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

[Scott Rosenbaum <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that all of the category assignments are a little suspect.  Do you favor those communities that are the most active?  Or do you give the nod to communities that are struggling to move forward?

One of the ideas of having the un-allocated talks was that there would be committee consensus on more of the talks.  If a category gets extra talks it would be based on having the best possible talk submissions, as voted by the committee.  This year we have 20% of the time un-allocated.  (9 Longs, 1 Main Stage, 10 Tutorials). 

If you all feel that the balance is really out of whack, then I would propose taking one long talk from each of the category and put them into the un-allocated bucket.  Taking away one long talk from each category would give us (27 Longs, 1 Main Stage, 10 Tutorials) in un-allocated.  The problem with this approach is we would have to reach consensus on 38 slots which would take a lot more work. 

That is not the only solution, I am open to any proposals, but my vote would be to leave things as they are.  Let me know what you think. 

+1 to accept the categories as they are
-1 to try and change the allocations to a better balance.


Scott



Schaefer, Doug wrote:

I knew that would get an LOL out of Mike ;)

 

Well, the valley is also a hotbed of embedded and Embedded Systems Conference can attest to. And we actually get good attendence to Eclipse talks there, when we can get them. I think we can get these guys to come to EclipseCon if we have a good program for them. But I guess that's our job to figure out.

 

Doug.

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| Where is Eclipse headed? I'd bet that's harder to answer than you think, and I'm not sure there's any one individual who would know, except for maybe Mike.

 

I literally LOL’d on that one. I have guesses on where it’s heading. Perhaps my guesses are a little better informed than yours, but they’re still guesses.

 

Communities don’t head in a particular direction. They evolve. Evolution is hard to predict J

 

| Interestingly enough, I find ESE has a much higher embedded attendance percentage than EclipseCon. How does that happen? Culture?

| Demographics? Awesome recruiting by Ralph?

 

It is partially location and demographics. The Stuttgart area is very automotive-driven. My observation is also that small software companies in Europe are much more likely to be focused on systems engineering than enterprise. I think this is partially because of the large number of systems engineering companies in Europe.

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