Hi Program Committee,
here is a summary of
some conversation that went on in the past week between some
of the SOA PMC (Marc Gille) and me and Ralph and Anne.
If you look at the
submission http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2012/sessions/soa-track-mutiple-sessions it has only a small abstract but a pretty long
PDF attached to it.
Its submitted as a
tutorial but only because as a tutorial because that has the
length that the SOA people like to have. They had some early
conversation with Mike and Ralph that led to this
submission. They also sent an email to Ralph and myself once
the submission was in.
Given that we have a
total of 13 tutorial submissions and 5 slots I saw little
chance that this will get anywhere given that its not even a
tutorial and tutorial are pretty popular. I asked Anne if
there is small room somewhere that we could give them in
parallel to the tutorials. We have the Seminarrooms (in the
basement), both of them, which are not taken during the
tutorials. I also suggest to them (as a alternative) to do a
“SOA night” in parallel to the BoFs where they could have 3
or 4 hours in one of the rooms.
At the same time I asked
to estimate the number of people coming. Their goal is to
get 30 people to call it a success which is not that much
given the 600 attendee for the conference that we are aiming
at (hopefully we get there).
After these choices the
SOA PMC decided that they would call off the tutorial and
their favorite choice would be to have a small room in
parallel to the tutorial. People who choose to the SOA track
would not be able to attend the tutorials (they are aware of
this). We would put the SOA sessions as regular submissions
into the system (4 sessions) after the 31st of
July and add a SOA track to the program. They don’t get
speaker passes for this SOA track and need to do some
marketing to get people interested. Everyone can attend the
SOA track (its not a closed session but open to everyone)
So here is an action
item for everyone in the PC.
Are we all ok with this ? Anyone fears that it would
distract people from the tutorials ? Anyone feels that we
shouldn’t have this kind of special content ? Strong feeling
pro or con ? Questions ? Anything clear ?
Please vote +1 and -1
(and 0 if you must J ). Raise concerns. Now is a good time.
Thanks
Christian Campo
