EclipseCon Program Committee,
As you are all probably aware, the number of talk slots and the budget
are linked: more talk slots means more rooms we need to rent, more AV
we need to rent, more door monitors, and more comp registrations to
give away. In doing the budget for Mike to present to the Finance
Committee, here's what I've come up with for the slot allocations:
- Tutorials: 80 in 20 parallel sessions on Monday. Each is two
hours and is entitled to two comp registrations. (It is really
important that the tutorials have *hands on results* that the attendees
can take away. It's a lot of work to prepare a good tutorial and that's
why they get two comp registrations.)
- Long talks: 80 in 5 parallel sessions on each of Tue-Wed-Thu. One
hour (50 minutes) and has one comp registration.
- Short talks: 160 in 2 parallel sessions on each of Tue-Wed-Thu.
10 minutes and has a 20% discount registration coupon. (10 minutes =
1/5 of 50 minutes; 20% = 1/5 of 100%).
I spoke to Doug yesterday and he pointed out that these are different
numbers than the preliminary numbers I had given him (the maximum space
capacity numbers) and, yes, they are. He said that he would re-do the
allocations.
Additionally, here are the relevant dates:
- Sept 24 - Eclipsezilla opens
- Nov 19 - submissions close for all types
- Dec 10 - program 90% completed (basically, the program is
completed but we might leave a few slots open for late breaking items)
- Feb 7 - program 100% complete
- Bjorn
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