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Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: EclipseCon 2010 Conference call 21 Oct 09
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Esteemed Program Committee,
Regarding free passes:
The more important point of coupons, passes, that kind of thing
came up. Everyone is aware of the tensions -
* Speaker can't get travel authorized unless it's a free pass,
* we can't give out free passes for all
* we want to reward the good stuff, regardless of talk length
... we
the PC must also have a pool of free passes that we can
dispense for what we perceive as quality. There was a general
agreement on that.
Yes, that's the plan. In the past EclipseCon has had a policy of "N%
discount for M minutes of talking" but this year we'll just leave the
decisions for who gets free or discounted passes up to the program
committee. We did that (for the most part) with ESE this year and the
ESE PC produced a very nice program and I believe the EclipseCon PC will
do an even better job under Oisin's leadership.
My only request is that you/we find a way to avoid making it look like
an in-crowd/clique thing were the friends of the PC get all the free
passes and the out-crowd gets nothing.
There was a suggestion
that perhaps submitters be made aware of the free pass pool
and that they might want to help the PC decide by submitting
either an extended abstract (abstract + paper), or indeed,
mirabile dictu, produce their slides early, i.e. compete.
Or maybe even a youtube video of themselves giving the talk itself!
- Bjorn
