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

["Pascal Rapicault" <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would not necessarily pick the Scala talk as I'm not sure if someone can
really get much of scala in 35 min, however I would definitely go with the
Play talk and also the Akka talk since their examples will be in Java.


On Fri, November 22, 2013 16:32, Andrew Eisenberg wrote:
> I do hope that we can get more representation from
> Typesafe/Scala/Play/Akka.  They generally created really interesting
> technology (and as Ian says, they are the cool kids right now).  But
> that being said, I don't think we need more than one talk on Play.
> The first one that John links to above is also my pick as well since
> it shows Play in a very Eclipsy way.
>
> And having a Scala talk would be nice, too, but all of the Scala
> sessions are rated quite low.
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From:        "Pascal Rapicault" <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To:        "Eclipsecon NA program committee discussions"
>> <eclipsecon-na-program-committee@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Date:        11/22/2013 04:06 PM
>> Subject:        [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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