Wow! I take one day off…
Scott, I like the categories. Somewhere in the sea of responses
to this, someone hinted and internal vs. external categories. I’d like to make
the following suggestion:
1. The categories you list below are “external categories” that
are presented to the submitters/attendees.
2. When we talk about allocations, we use a larger number of
internal sub-categories, still to be defined.
I’m biased, because I don’t know where Mobile and Embedded fits
into the external categories you’ve listed. Maybe it’s IDE, maybe it’s applied
Eclipse. I would hate to see it get completely lost.
My 2 cents.
Doug G
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Subject: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Category Evaluations
I was reading my newsreader
(procrastinating on sending this email) when I came across a review 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
