Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] If you *add* any tags to

[Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I would have a strong preference to be able to do it all in the submission
> system and not have to keep things in two places, e.g. spread-sheets and the
> system.

+1 for less moving parts.

> My opinion is that it is better to have a two tier system.  Tier 1 is a
> coarse grain based on categories (like this years tags), which basically
> represent how we split up the talks for evaluation, scheduling, and
> allocation.
>
> I think the second layer should be tags which are fine grain and can be help
> to add a layer of meta information about the talks that we can use to make
> sure we have good coverage.  In the tags we would have specific Eclipse
> project names, and technologies e.g. JPA or M2M.

I was thinking that each submission could have an "affiliation" which
effectively links that submission with a project or subproject. This will
ensure that we can do better balancing, as you write above.

I have stop thinking about this now and leave it until next week ;-)

 --oh