| [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Toward the CfP |
Hi, We need to decide about these topics: track list, theme days and talk types. Please find below what came out from the initial call we had and the comments on the gdoc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zGW-3Y5lSrGd9vZAEHpH3sp1wci39FSLComoIFsUdz8) Tracks list Eclipse Platform / RCP Languages and Web / Mobile / Cloud Development Modeling Methodology and Devops Embedded Other Cool Stuff Theme days Java 9 Day IoT Day IDE Day Despite Java 9 will only be released in Sept. 2016, I think we should still keep this theme day. The work on jigsaw is really starting to be interesting (early-access release of jdk9 with jigsaw has been released a few days ago) and the JDT project is already working on supporting the new Java 9 features. It is a chance to hear about all of this in advance. The IDE day also got positive feedback during our call. Its description and how to call properly for talks will be hard. If you have any idea how to reach people about the topic, please share! The Java 9 and the IDE day submissions will be handled as any other submissions by the regular PC. The IoT day will be handled by a separate committee lead by Julien Vermillard. Talk types Tutorial (3h) Standard (35m) It seems that short talks should not be publicly called and we should keep this as a scheduling tool. It means that we will have the two talk types above. If you disagree with tracks / theme days and talk types, please speak up. We need to reach a decision by Monday. Once finalized, I will send you track / theme day / talk types descriptions for the CfP page. We will need to finalize these descriptions by the end of next week. Community Voting Some really interesting discussions about it. Thanks! First, I think we all agree that offering the community to speak up about the submissions is a good thing. But we seem to not reach consensus on how to do it. So here is what I propose: - The results will be solely indicative for the committee. The PC will choose the program, with or without taking into account the voting. We will need to be very clear about that fact in advance to avoid ambiguous situations like on OpenStack (see this mail thread for details http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/community/2015-August/001261.html). - For the early birds selection, we give the external submission system a try. We open it right after the end of the early-birds submission deadline for some days and do our selection after that. - Depending on the popularity of this vote, we either reiterate the external system for the full program or we use the comment system on the website. I would consider the external voting system a success if we have more voters than we have talks submitted for the early-birds (e.g., if we have 20 talks, we would need 20+ voters to consider it a success). - If we reuse the external system, we open it after the end of CfP. - If we use the comment system, we will call for comments right after the early bird selection. Are you ok with that compromise? We will need to decide about that topic by next Friday. If you feel we need another call to talk about it, please say it. Cheers, Mikael |