Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Stream-of-consciousness f

[Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought it was a great conference. I was worried about the small venue but it's probably what helped create the buzz. I was always running into people I knew or who wanted to introduce themselves and, for me, that's what I get most out of EclipseCon.

One take away as work for the PC next year is to help train the speakers at giving 25 minute talks. I saw quite a few people try to cram too much information into the format so that they were rushed. At least one guy complained all the way through that the talks were too short. Well, buddy, deal with it and cut some of this crap out. You can get a lot of information from the web sites, what you need is the story behind the story.

I only went to one lightning talk session, but I found it pretty good. They guys there have figured out how to get things cut down to 12 minutes. Present one idea, show a little demo, you're good.

I worry about how we'll top this year with the buzz created by the rover challenge. That could be something you can only do once. But the buzz was incredible and probably what led to all the people staying for the end. Mind you so were the give aways :).

Doug.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

These are a mixture of my impressions and items of feedback that were
given/solicited.

+1 :
* tutorials every morning
* the mars rover buzz
* the keynotes
* the booths in the middle of the crowd
* shorter talks
* lotsa bofs
* Don's humour and MC skills
* mugs rather than cups for coffee
* ice cream
* exercise organization
* more people in sessions
* wireless working
* panels
* some really good talks

-1:
* code on slides not visible in rooms
* viewability of projection screens bad from certain angles
* not enough demos in some talks
* not enough non-demos in some talks (huh)
* inconsistent tutorial experiences
* some rotten talks (I have names if necessary :)
* not enough people stopping at booth

By definition you don't get a +0 from anyone with an opinion :)

On the -1 part, we could address viewability of slides
by adding TV feeds further down the room, nearer the
back, at an extra cost I am sure. The tutorial experience
inconsistency is something we should definitely attempt to
fix (IMHO), probably with some supervisory assignments
from the PC and a timeline for materials production, and
a checklist of what you as a tutorial presenter needs to
do to be ready.

I know Don has had feedback too - it would be great  to
collate all this for the next victim^h^h^h^h^h^h chair's
reference.

And thanks a bunch for everything guys, it was fun!

 --oh
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