Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Category Evaluations

[Richard Gronback <richard.gronback@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Category Evaluations

I’m not sure if 5 is the magic number, but if you’re looking to lose one more, I’d say combine your first two into “Eclipse as a Platform (e4, Runtime, OSGI, and RCP).

“Emerging Technologies” makes me think e4 belongs there, but it’s really just for miscellaneous Technology projects, right?  Perhaps it needs a better name, or maybe the individual Technology projects would fit into the more general categories.  Eliminating it would also get you down to 5.

I like the reduced number, certainly.

Thanks,
Rich


On 8/7/08 4:20 PM, "Scott Rosenbaum" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was reading my newsreader (procrastinating on sending this email) when I came across a review  <http://blogs.openforum.com/2008/08/07/how-to-be-persuasive/> by Guy Kawasaki of a book that he really likes.  Basically it provides 50 ideas that have been proven in the lap and business applications.  In reading the review I came across this nugget:

2. Researchers found that the more options offered in a company retirement plan, the fewer people participate in that plan. Similarly, when experimenters offered only six flavors of jam, 30% of the people who approached the display bought any jam. When the experimenters offered 24 flavors, only 3% bought some. Therefore, instead of trying to offer every color, size, and price point of gizmo, you might want to reduce the choices to increase sales.

Just substitute jam for category.

I would like to see the number of overall categories to be reduced from the current twenty-one down to five.  The best I could come up with was six categories, but I am sure that we can figure out how to get down to five.  Have a look at my proposal and let me know what you think.  How do we go from 6 to 5?  If you don't feel that this organization does your category, please provide an alternative.  (As long as you consider all the categories and not just yours).

For your convenience, I have listed all of the original categories first.  Then I have my proposal with a mapping of the current talks into the new categories.

CURRENT CATEGORIES
   E4      
    Business      
    Industry
    Director's Choice
    Committer and Contributor
    Other
    OSGi DevCon
    Runtime     
    Java     
    C/C++
    Tools     
    Data Tooling
    Emerging Technology     
    Mobile/Embedded     
    Modeling     
    Eclipse as a Platform     
    RCP     
    Reporting     
    SOA     
    Test & Performance     
    Web Tools     

PROPOSED CATEGORIES
   Runtime Platform  (E4, Runtime, OSGi)
    UI Platform (E4, RCP)
    IDE Platform and Languages (Java, C/C++, Tools, Web Tools)
    Applied Eclipse (Data Tooling, Reporting, Modeling, SOA, TPTP)
    Emerging Technologies
    Eclipse Business (Committer and Contrib, Business, Industry, Director's Choice, Other)

Scott

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