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:)
EclipseCon is about community. If your employer wants
you to be an active member of this community, they'll send you whether
you're presenting or not. I see a lot of the CDT committers from outside
IBM at these conferences for exactly that reason. IBM, not so much, and I'd hate
to think it's because of their lack of interest in the Eclipse community, but
the way things are going lately... Boris's story is still too fresh in my
mind.
At any rate, Bjorn, I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that we
should reject all presentations by IBMers, and I'm sure this
issue is not just with IBM with the way things are
progressing. We might want to think about overbooking for now and let the
chips fall where they may.
Doug.
Program Committee members,
Given that the issue of IBM speakers
not getting travel approval has been raised, we should be very careful about
accepting IBM talks. This is unfortunate given the depth of technical
expertise at IBM, but the worst situation we, as a program committee, could
get into is to decline our #2 choice in favor of our #1 choice and then have
the #1 choice withdraw because IBM won't send them to the conference - then
we'd either have egg on our faces when we go to the #2 choice or we'd have
nothing at all if the #2 choice made other plans. So... how are we going to
handle this? Do we need IBM people to get a letter from their manager proving
that they can come to the conference before we will accept their
talk?
- Bjorn
P.S. Originally we had intended the speaker
agreement to be that double-check on people's attendance, but an unfortunately
high number of people have been signing the speaker agreement (wherein they
agree to come) and then reneging on that agreement later. So, basically, we
can't count on the speaker agreement as an agreement.
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