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Sorry, Bjorn, didn't mean to jump to conclusions
:)
But yes, this will be an interesting year for all
participating companies and whether they'll send people who have talks accepted.
I've had examples where guys outside of a three leter company lose their travel
approval because a long talk was reduced to a short talk so it's not just them.
We do have to be careful, but I'm not sure there's anything formal we can do.
Everyone puts in a submission with the best of intentions and things may not pan
out. I think we have the opportunity to turn short talks into long talks to
account for cancelations if needed to cover for holes in the
program.
Doug.
At any rate, Bjorn, I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that
we should reject all presentations by IBMers,
... Goodness no! I just want to make sure that
we've considered the issue so that we end up with a great program for the
attendees.
I can't speak for all of IBM,
but I will say that for the Jazz and Eclipse teams we've already been doing
a fair amount of self-censoring of proposals, based on our projections of
how many people we're going to be able to send, prior to the submission
actually being put into the EclipseCon system. And exactly for the
reasons that we don't want a proposal accepted only to have to pull it
later.
Thanks, Kevin (and the hidden rest of
you all), that's very reassuring.
Not to speak negatively of other
companies, but only to say that we the program committee face a higher than
usual risk associated with attendance at this year's conference and we need
to plan for that.
That's correct, but the
aforementioned three-letter company is the only one so far whose employees
have said "I'm not going to be able to come because I didn't get travel
approval". Maybe that has been true for other companies and none of them have
been honest enough to tell me directly - obviously, I have no way of knowing
that.
We've had a good track record of yes-shows (non no-shows) at
EclipseCon over the years: a few due to family illnesses and an expected
percent who decided that a short talk wasn't worth the trip -- I'd like us to
make sure that we keep it that way so that we don't have upset attendees
saying "I came for tutorial/talk X and now it was canceled at the last
minute!".
- Bjorn
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