| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] EclipseCon 2010 Part 2 - Conference Structure |
In my previous email, I mentioned that the conference is predicted to shrink to a smaller size again this year, meaning that it will be a cosier affair. We will be pulling back from the full convention centre and concentrating the crowd into the hotel itself, making it more intimate than it has been in the past few years. Bjorn is out of town this week, so please hang on to your questions about size, rooms, etc until he gets back. You might remember me writing about *value* in my previous mail too - a smaller conference, with an increase level of shoulder-rubbing going on, will lead to more Interaction. Of course, just boinging off people in the corridor is really a human Brownian motion effect and not particularly useful unless you can capitalize on it, by providing the social equivalent of condensation nuclei around which delegates can accrete [*]. This I've done by increasing the number of panel sessions, and introducing an evening 'unconference' - which is basically a participant driven mini-conference that extends our current BoF concept. I asked Bjorn to construct a couple of model layouts, which I've attached - have a look and send your comments. In my next email, I'm going to write about some of the finer-grained details of talks, panels, keynotes and the unconference. best regards Oisin [*] No, I'm not thinking about the hotel bar at this stage :)
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EclipseCon 2010 layouts.xls
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