Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Are we diverse enough?

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think we have a tendency to pick speakers
we know about because there is less risk, but it is good to challenge that.
I don't think it is necessarily a problem if some companies that are involved
in lots of different Eclipse projects to have several speakers. The question
is whether we are overlooking some potentially great topics/speakers because
we stick with what we know. 

I guess we haven't gotten to the "cool
stuff" category yet, but this one on the Play framework from a Typesafe
speaker looks interesting:

https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/rapid-reactive-webapp-development-play-eclipse

There is another talk on the play framework
but the speaker's background on the topic is unclear and I voted it very
low as a duplicate:

https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/play-web-framework-rocks


John




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 "Pascal Rapicault"
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 11/22/2013 04:06 PM
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   [eclipsecon-na-program-committee]
Are we diverse enough?
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I'm looking at the talks that are currently accepted
and I'm wondering if
we are really diverse enough in the number of companies that are speaking.
For example I can see that the following companies have 4 talks or more:
(sorted by alphabetical order)
- Ericsson
- EclipseSource
- IBM
- Itemis
- Obeo

and that yet a company like Typesafe who is a cool kid of the java
ecosystem and have submitted 5 talks got none accepted. Their only
representation is Jonas talk.

What do you think?


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