| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: Tutorials with part 1, part 2 (or worse, part 1-2-3) are not in the spirit of EclipseCon 2008 |
We have two hour tutorials this year because the attendees asked us to have shorter tutorials. Thus having a six hour tutorial (e.g. https://eclipsecon.greenmeetingsystems.com/submissions/view/47, https://eclipsecon.greenmeetingsystems.com/submissions/view/48, https://eclipsecon.greenmeetingsystems.com/submissions/view/49) is really not the right thing to do.
I understand that there is a lot of content to cover, but it should be broken into three separate tutorials: not just three with the same name and abstract. And the three should be independent - in the sense that one would be for beginners, one for intermediate, and one ofor advanced (for example).
I really think is is a mistake.
I also think all the "part 1/part 2" tutorials are a mistake - the presenters are going to be unhappy and the attendees are going to be unhappy when people wander out of part 1 and in to part 2 without attending the other part. The conference is not structured to guarantee or even require attendance at both parts. That means that the presenters are going to need to write separate tutorials anyway, so the titles should be separate as well.
My opinion,
Bjorn