[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] EclipseCon Deciders Call #3 :

[Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, today on the call we had

Oisin, David, Dave, Ed, Don, Ketan, Doug and Wayne

The mission was to haggle over the long talks and we have done
so and reached an accomodation.

You can see the results in the haggling-extendedtalks-08jan10
document in the shared folder, but I shall also summarize them
here, with supporting dialog.

There were a few 'principles' that we had consensus on:

1. Talks that take in a mix of different technologies are better than
talks that focus on one technology.
2. 'Project' style of talks should be 25 minute talks, unless there's
a good reason not to be.
3. Extended talk requests that already have tutorials on the topic
are less likely to get a slot than ones with no tutorial

So here's what we came up with. Others who were on the call --
please let me know if I have missed some of the discussions, or
captured/summarized incorrectly.

50 min
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* 1095 OSGi Best and Worst Practices

Selected as part of the OSGi DevCon

*  1134 Eclipse to the Rescue

Selected as Top 6

* 1203 A world-class Linux IDE: how do we get there from here?

Selected as Top 6

* 1224 Composite Bundles - Isolating Applications in a Collaborative
OSGi World

Selected as part of the OSGi DevCon

* 1226 JavaEE 6 Application Development, OSGi and Eclipse Users

Selected because of the heady mix of various related technologies in
one talk.

* 1278 Modeling Project Runway 2010

Selected because it composes a series of sub-element talks that free
up space in the standard and lightning zones, as well as the multiple
technologies showcased

* 1295 Javascript Debugged

Selected because there was a lot of progress made on this code over
the last year; because it's a hot topic for browser-based development;
because it feeds into the e4 capabilities.

* 1359  OneBench Reloaded - Pushd the Modularity Story in an
Enterprise-wide Rich Client Stack

Selected for technology mix, real-world experience, lessons learned
report

* 1373   Scale, Share and Store your Models with CDO

Selected for being a high-demand project and for being a roll-up of a
collection of other talks of standard and lightning nature

So if you have done your counting correctly you will see this is NINE
talks, one less than the ten we have budget for. Why? Well, there is
the inevitable Director's Choice. This is something that's been off our
radar a little since we've been in the thick of things. We need to reserve
1 extended talk and 2 standard talks for this. Start lobbying Mike now...

25 min
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Project talks

* 1146 Eclipse PHP Development Tools
* 1349 An Introduction to Java Profiling using Eclipse TPTP
* 1388 Searching the Cloud - the EclipseRT Umbrella
* 1405 BIRT to the Bare Metal : Framwork and API
* 1506 The Future of Mylyn

Others
* 1228 Eclipse in the Enterprise: lessons from Google

We just had to squeeze it. There is an 'Enterprise Day' on Thursday,
where these guys can extend their pitch, if necessary.

*  1333 The State of the Art in Spring and Grails Developer Tooling

We're interested in the Eclipse part of the Spring tooling, not so
much in the Grails part.

*  1429 Working in the Cloud: Development, Deployment and Project
Management for Force.com

Potentially interesting cloud-related talk from Salesforce.

* 1473 Participate in Eclipse for your Success!
This is a business-y talk. I don't see it getting past the 25minute slot
cull, frankly :)

0 mins
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Foregoing were the survivors and the casualties. Here are the
talks that have toe tags. We need to be brutal.

* 1324 Write once, test everywhere? Cross-platform development
and testing with Eclipse

Concern that the talk is too general and focussed on the concepts
and planning related to cross-platform development, which is something
that most attendees should have some inkling of already.

* 1513 A Mind-Blowing Use of Eclipse Technologies

Nothing but smoke and mirrors here it would appear, no confidence
that this would turn out to be focussed and useful talk.

That's it for the moment, comments, please.

 --oh