Scott, I think Mobile and Embedded satisfied your criteria
at about 11 AM ET this morning.
-E
All,
I know you are all hard at work getting your categories in order. It looks like there
are some good negotiations going on to get the submitters to work together and
make their talks more concise.
In case you are wondering how many
un-allocated talks are available here is the list: - 10 Tutorial Slots - 12
Long Slots - 1 Main Stage Presentation
On Tuesday's call next week I want to
have an Aardvark bake-off. Each of you will pitch the talks that you can't
fit into your allocation that you think should be in the program
(aardvarks). My hope is to distributed the un-allocated talks either on
the call or shortly after (email voting).

In order
to make this work, we need to have finished our category reviews.
This means that you should go through your category
and: - Tentative-Accept the talks you can fit given your current
allocation - Tag your Main Stage (if you have one) -
Tentative-Decline talks that we should not consider - Tag talks that
you think are good, but you can't fit as Aardvark
There is not a lot of un-allocated time to spread between all of
the categories so be prepared for some serious horse aardvark
trading.
For this to work we need to be ready. As an
incentive, I will give one long talk to the first category that is ready for
the Aardvark sale. If your category is ready, send an email to the
mailing list, I will review and let you know if you have won. There is a
little fine print at the end of the post that explains the rules a bit
more.
I realize that I am being a bit of a dictator here. If you
have a problem with that blame Doug Schaefer, I read his dictator
post last week.
Scott
PROGRAM
RULES: over-submitted 1) This only applies to the categories that are
significantly over-submitted (see below). Data Tooling, Reporting, e4,
CDT, and Committer And Contrib can not win this one slot. We still want
you to participate in the call on Tuesday, so please make sure you are
prepared.
2) No cheating. You can't just accept a bunch of talks,
mark the rest as aardvarks and call it good.
3) Your category can
be over-booked if you have a valid plan to reduce longs to shorts
etc. I am not looking for perfection just a clear idea that your
work is done. If it is confusing explain it in your email (great job to
everyone who provided status for the last call).
4) Rules Subject to
Change if this poorly thought out idea causes more problems than it
solves.
Business And Industry |
755% |
over-submitted
|
OSGi
DevCon |
659% |
over-submitted |
Modeling |
473% |
over-submitted |
Tools |
471% |
over-submitted |
Mobile And
Embedded |
364% |
over-submitted |
Runtime |
349% |
over-submitted |
Other |
327% |
over-submitted |
Test And
Performance |
228% |
over-submitted |
UI /
RCP |
200% |
over-submitted |
Emerging
Technology |
196% |
over-submitted |
SOA |
178% |
over-submitted |
Java |
173% |
over-submitted |
Web
Tools |
161% |
over-submitted |
Data Tooling |
117% |
not eligible
|
Reporting |
108% |
not eligible |
e4 |
101% |
not eligible |
CDT |
100% |
not eligible |
Committer And
Contributor |
99% |
not
eligible |
|