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

[Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think Scott makes a good case here. I have a couple
of remarks.

1. That the talks are planned with the community, ergo they are
effectively filtered already - but not all communities can attempt
that level of organization. This skews the process of selection,
I think, relative to the more 'open it up and pile on' approaches of
larger and more diverse projects.

Should future conferences plan for this kind of difference?

2. The figures on the spreadsheet for the activity on groups don't
have a time window, so I would suggest that the older the project
the higher it is up the list :)  Not saying this is the case with BIRT,
but just a general comment.

Year-on-year activity is probably a better indicator than cumulative
activity since inception.

Don says he can work the scheduling, but of course adding the talk
as extended would mean a cut of 1 standard talk and the non-replacement
of the moved talk for the schedule to work. I would like to see
if we get some progress  done on the standard talks sheet first and
then come back to this.

Of course, I would like to get comments from the rest of the
committee please.

 cheers
  --oh