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[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] ECE 2012 MyFeedback
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Hi PC
I think ECE 2012 went quit ok also thanks to the work we all together put into create the program.
I do a quick list of things that could be better. I encourage everyone to post their own feedback.
Extended Talks: I changed my mind abouzt extended talks. Talks I went to could have also been presented as standard talk I must admit (except my own talk :-) ). I am interested to hear what the impression of other PC members is. But maybe we only do one length of talk next year ?
Closing a talk: I attended multiple session where people did not finish on time. In one extended talk, people where looking on the presentation time rather than the clock. One guy also started yet another demo at 0:30. Also two people complained to me, that their previous talk did not finish in time.
People simply didnt get that they had to finish 5 minutes BEFORE the next speaker. Some people suggested to me that the FOSLC people should interupt the speaker (or show yellow or red cards). I presonally think that this would be too much. I had the idea of alarm clocks in every room (started by the FOSLC people) and they would automatically go off when the time is up.
Other ideas are welcome (someone blowing a wuwuzela on the hallway or maybe there is a central loudspeaker that you could hear in every room). Speakers (or at least some speakers) wouldnt stop by themselves and I think it would be great if we can improve there.
Theatre: The place that I thought was really the best place for a good talk turned out to suck great time. Again several people complained to me. They couldnt see anyone, (lights right in their eye) and the crowd would just distribute over the whole place. So 100 people look like an empty crowd. I think we should close the back entrance for talks (not for keynotes) so that people move into the front half. And maybe we can also do something about the light. Currently it was a bad spot even for great speakers.
- it was really hard for me to anticipate how many people go to a talk. Most talks I went to had like 30 –50 (at most) people. I was really wondering where everybody is. (maybe again that is because I didnt went to modeling or DSL talks :-) ). Sarah Goff-Dupont who has like 3rd from the cut line on the bottom of the list of the proposed session, attracted about 60-70 people (people lining up on the wall) to see here Continous Integration Talk. We werent so sure about here because she is a product marketing person but she is a great speaker (and singer :-) ) and her talk was great.
- The Eclipse 4 tutorial was packed. I have never seen the Stage room so full of people. There was literally no seat. However it seems that it was quit some work to get two proposals together into one tutorial. (give that different people have different points of view :-) )
- I liked the three keynotes. As Ralph said, they all could improve. Some more and some less. The third one was apparently the best and I think it was quit good to put them on the last day
- when I distributed the talks on the slots, I put talks with high votings in the central place (rather than the FMZ) and also rather one Tuesday, Wednesday. Not sure if that was a good idea. Seems that the program faded a little out on thursday afternoon. Some people were sitting there just waiting for the closing session or they left early. Some apparently had to leave early because of a flight or a customer waiting. So maybe not that bad.
- we had a surprising high number of talk cancellations. Is that something we should formalize more like having a wait queue ?
As I wrote, please contribute your own feedback….
thanks
christian
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