Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Shortlist proposals

[Sebastian Zarnekow <Sebastian.Zarnekow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

1) +1 from me for the Linux / SWT topic even though I voted only one star on that one because of the small target audience, you guys convinced me that it is important to have a core SWT talk at EclipseCon.

2) +1 accessibility should be taken more serious by the avg dev, but I fear it won't attract too many people. Alex as a speaker and Jubula as an otherwise missing topic appear to be more important for EclipseCon.

3) Given the low avg votes for the CDO talk (and the specialized topic) and the talk on Business Process Modeling (which isn't especially sexy), and given that the papyrus track also has a lot of modeling content, I suggest to drop one / or both of these two talks.
Instead I'd like to champion Jan's Talk Diagrams, Xtext and UX (please don't be afraid of Xtext in the title, he clarified that in a comment on the proposal) which he couldn't give last year for personal reasons. I'm obviously biased since I'm working with Jan, but these are the reasons why do I think this is a nice addition to the program:

 - We have a Sirius and a GEF talk, so we have already some nice content for people who are interested in graphical visualization. The technology that Jan presents takes a different approach to diagramming and could be a good complement to the more traditional ways taken by Sirius and GEF.

 - The demos that he has are a nice mash-up of Eclipse technologies. E.g. he demos how other frameworks / APIs in Eclipse can be used to explore the data in the workspace (e.g. JDT, PDE, ..)

 - Assuming that we reject Welcome to the flatland which would have covered challenges in UI design (somehow), the UX aspect of his talk may compensate for that.

 - Also assuming that we reject the Airport Congestion Management with JavaFX and Open Source, the JavaFX aspect in Jans talk may compensate for people who are interested in that technology.

 - Jan's a great speaker

 - I think it doesn't belong to the modeling track at all.

What do others think?

Best,
Sebastian

On 26 November 2014 at 18:47, Simon Kaegi <Simon_Kaegi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1. +1 to SWT bleeding edge talk over flatland
2. First, I agree we want Alex speaking and should try to find a way.  I'm just not in favor of replacing this one particular talk. Accessibility is an important topic for RCP developers and not as specialized as you think. At least on my team it's a general skill (like i18n and l10n) and very useful as a lens when looking at user experience.
3. If we really do have too many modeling talks perhaps we might consider substituting Alex's talk.

"Ian Skerrett" ---11/26/2014 09:11:45 AM---I'd like to propose some changes:

From: "Ian Skerrett" <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Eclipsecon NA program committee discussions" <eclipsecon-na-program-committee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/26/2014 09:11 AM
Subject: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Shortlist proposals
Sent by: eclipsecon-na-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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I’d like to propose some changes:
 

1.      SWT Talk. I propose we drop Welcome to the flatland and replace it with How to keep Eclipse on the bleeding edge in the Linux world   The flatland talks seems to be an experiment/prototype but the Bleeding Edge talk is from the SWT lead.  FWIW, the speaker of the flatland talk will be a talk in the CDT Day.
2.      Jubula talk. I propose we drop Removing Accessibility Obstacles in Your RCP/SWT Application and replace it with Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula   Accessibility is an important topic but it is pretty specialized. I also think having Alex speak at EclipseCon is a good idea. She is consistently rated as a popular speaker.
3.      Too many Modeling talks. My feeling is if you combine the Modeling track and Polarsys Day we have too many Modeling talks. I count at least 3 of the Polarsys talks that could have easily fit into the Modeling track. I would suggest we drop Get dirty with CDO or Building Business UIs with EMF Forms.  For replacement, I would suggest we add a BIRT talk. WE don’t have any BIRT content right now. Writing an Emitter to Unit Test BIRT Reports for CI, or How Not To Shoot Yourself in the Foot with Embedded BIRT Deployments.  Or the Cordova talk Building Apache Cordova applications with Eclipse
 

 
 
Ian Skerrett
VP Marketing
Eclipse Foundation
@ianskerrett
 
 

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