Attending: Tim, Paul, Doug, Gunnar, Ed, Lawrence,
Sri
Regrets: Simon
Modifications to list below: No commercial
category, merge CDT with languages, Maybe add a “Top 10”, Carve out
an “experience” session
Homework:
Over the next two weeks all PC members should
- Read
through the short talk submissions
- Add/modify
keywords (create additional keywords as needed – I’ll seed
them with the set from our call today)
- Comment,
vote, and otherwise clarify short talk submissions via EclipseZilla
- Solicit
additional content (from long talk conversions or elsewhere) as needed to
round out a session. (I’m particularly thinking of trying for a
complete business session; the other ones we can “pack” with two
smaller tracks.)
- Send
email to the PC with questions, concerns, ideas about regrouping etc. –
we need to go into the meeting on Feb 3rd ready to finalize the
short talks.
AIs
[Tim]:
- Check
with Bjorn on whether the PC is involved in anything else (demos, posters,
etc.); otherwise short talks are the only remaining items.
- Assuming
answer to above is “no”, cancel calls on 1/20 and 1/27; extend
the call on 2/3 to 2 hours to finalize short talk portion of program.
- Get
EclipseZilla modified to support the following to enable short talk
categorization to be carried out:
- keyword
column for export in CSV
- keyword
column option in “Change Columns” page
- Verify
with Erin or Nancy that long talk declines will occur today so that we can
prod their submitters to convert to short talks.
- Collect
suggestions for short talk suggestions for a mass mailing. (So far I’ve
only received two; if you have more, please send them.)
Let me know if I missed anything.
From: Tim Wagner
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006
9:18 AM
To: Eclipsecon Program Committee
list
Subject: reminder: call today,10am
PST
Agenda: Short talk program
organization, review of existing short talk submissions
Call info: Call info:
866-214-3176, 8870689#. International dialin is US 404-827-9098
I took a look through the short talk submissions last night;
most were high quality, but there’s a category of “gee, this sounds
a lot like a product demo/ad” so we’ll need to review our litmus
test for what counts a commercial plug versus a legitimate conference
presentation.
We’ll talk about the categorization of talks on the
call; as a preview, here are some of the buckets that sounded possible to me:
- New Technologies: Talks on
technology projects and other emerging/new ideas that involve Eclipse.
- EMF: There were several talks
on EMF topics.
- Languages: 3 or 4 talks had a
language bias.
- Plugsin Gone Wild: SOA plugins,
native code plugins, JVMs as plugins, etc.
- Admin/Deploy/Production: Talks
related to either using Eclipse as an admin/deploy console or deploying
Eclipse itself within the enterprise
- Build: 2-3 talks had a strong
build focus
- RCP: So many talks in this
category that we would either need multiple tracks or break it down
further
- CDT: ~3 talks on CDT topics
- Business: ~3 business talks. We
might be able to find a couple more if we want to try to fill up a
“Business Track” room.
- Test and Perf: TPTP and other
testing/per/monitoring infrastructure
- Then there was a large
“misc” category that seemed like it would benefit from further
breakdown…perhaps “Cool Apps” to collect some experience
and application papers, and if we want to permit some of the more
commercial-flavored talks, then they might be grouped into a category,
etc.
