[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Program Chair's letter to the

[Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the text as requested - give me a shout if there
are any weirdnesses or niggles!

 --oh


Welcome to EclipseCon 2010 and OSGi DevCon 2010!

This year sees some significant changes in the usual format, made with
you, the busy conference-goer, in mind. Tutorials to educate your
brain; talks to amaze and inform; panels to stoke debate, and our
newest feature - an Unconference - to give you the opportunity to make
your own unique contribution.

This dual-conference event has four sources of contribution - the
submitters, the program committee, the logistics crew and the
attendees. To the submitters I offer both thanks and sincere
regrets. Our smaller conference format this year had to result in
many, many good talks being left at the wayside. The submissions that
were chosen were picked to showcase a broad swathe of the phenomenon
that is Eclipse, from the community, committer and consumer points of
view.

As is usual practice, the submissions were sieved and judged by a
panel of volunteers who composed the Program Committee. I would like
to thank these individuals for their dedication to doing what turned
out to be a tough job in choosing the program. They are

Bernd Kolb; Chris Aniszczyk; Doug Schaefer; Dave Carver; David
Williams; Donald Smith; Ed Merks; Ketan Padegaonkar; Scott Rosenbaum;
Wayne Beaton; Bjorn Freeman-Benson; Doug Gaff;

For logistics and operations, Donald Smith, Anne Jacko and Gabe
O'Brien excelled in both the skill of organization and the more
difficult craft of patience as they created the conference structure
and improved the submission system.

All these tasks are done, and complete. The final contribution is for
you, the conference-goer, to add. The most important thing, I think,
is to have fun and interact with other people. Certainly I find that
if I set those goals, I always come away having learned something new.

Oisin Hurley