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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Welcome to EclipseCon 2014!
Hi everyone, and welcome to the EclipseCon 2014 Program Committee! 

Thank-you so much for agreeing to join the PC! I'm really looking forward to working with all of you. For those of you that have been on the PC before, welcome back. For those of you that are new to the Program Committee, Welcome! and please don't hesitate to ping me if you have any questions.

EclipseCon has always been my favourite conference. The technical content is outstanding, the opportunities for collaboration are endless and the Eclipse Family is one of the friendliness groups of people I've ever met. 

Ian S. and I tried to put together a diverse committee with representation from all around the Eclipse community. While each of you have technical expertise in different areas of Eclipse, I'm really hoping that everyone participates in the selection of the entire program. This really is 'our' EclipseCon, let's make it a great one!

Over the next few months the Program Committee will focus on the following things:
  1. Decide on themes and topic areas.
  2. Help identify keynote speakers.
  3. Identify and invite other speakers that might not otherwise consider EclipseCon.
  4. Help promote the call for submissions.
  5. Pick the early bird (if we choose to have this again). Everyone will be asked to pick their Top 5 and we will see if an obvious set falls out.
  6. Pick the program and ensure that we have a critical mass in each topic area. For this we will use an on-line voting tool. Everyone will rank each submission, and then we will go through each theme and find the best 10-15 talks for each one.
  7. Help promote the conference.
  8. Enjoy the conference!
The first order of business will be a kick-off meeting to get to know one another and to help identify next steps. We will use the Eclipse Foundation conference facility for this. 

We are hoping for the week of Sept 2. I've suggested Thursday or Friday (Sept 5 or 6) around 8:30am PDT, 11:30am EDT, 5:30pm CET. I've setup a doodle [1]. If this doesn't work well we can try and find another time.

[1] http://doodle.com/bw7rng3qwksvq9ry

Thanks again!
Ian


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Anne Jacko <anne.jacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all,

Ian B. has the program committee almost finalized, and our first call will be the week of September 2. Watch for more about scheduling that.

I have added everyone to this mailing list, and created an EclipseCon wiki account for the first-timers. If you are getting a new account, please look for an email with your account credentials. Let me know if you don't see that or have questions about the wiki.

For those of you with wiki accounts who have forgotten your credentials, your login ID is FirstnameLastname. You can deal with a forgotten password on the login page here: https://www.eclipsecon.org/conwiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin

The program committee wiki page is here: https://www.eclipsecon.org/wiki/2014_Program_Committee

There's a link there to the main wiki page if you want to go there for some reason.

FYI, the website will be up soon!

Anne Jacko
Eclipse Foundation
503-784-3788 (cell)




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