[technology-pmc] EclipseCon submissions

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Technology PMC and other folks listening in.

As you may already be aware, I am the EclipseCon [1] programme committee 
member representing the "Emerging Technology" category:
> The Emerging Technologies category is  chiefly intended to showcase 
> the efforts of the many projects that are part of the Technology 
> top-level project at Eclipse (submissions of this nature will take 
> priority). However, talks covering innovative and exciting projects or 
> work based on Eclipse technology are also welcomed here.
Currently, we are have slots allocated for twenty short talks, three 
long, one main stage, and two tutorials. This is, of course, not cast in 
stone, but we can assume that this will pretty accurately reflect reality.

The EclipseCon submission system [2] is now open. We need to start 
encouraging folks to submit talks. I'll be looking for the PMC to help 
with getting our many projects to submit talks, help with crafting the 
abstracts, and (possibly) provide coaching to ensure that the talks are 
of the highest quality possible.

I have been asked to submit a talk on accessibility. I think the ACTF 
folks are best qualified for this and I intend to push for them to get 
(at least) a long talk discussing (a) the issues of accessibility, (b) 
how those issues can be addressed in Eclipse RCP/RAP-based applications, 
and (c) how the ACTF can help.

Thanks,

Wayne

[1] http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/
[2] http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/submissions