Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] submission categories nee

[Oisin Hurley <oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just to pique some discussion...

So last year we had these broad category buckets and then tagging
within those buckets. A number of issues ensued, but IIRC they were
very much about insufficient communication regarding the tags and
their usage by submitters, and the fact that the tag space was shared
by submitters and by reviewers, so that changes by reviewers were
available to view by submitters.

There was feedback that  relating the talk to a project makes it easier
for attendees to navigate the conference. But there are so many
different projects...

One proposal would be to stick with last year's approach, except to
make sure that there is a second set of tags that the committee can
edit for the purposes of review that are not visible to all.

A second proposal would be to come up with a number of tracks that
we can fill, such as Eclipse Runtime, Eclipse Language Tools, Eclipse
Modeling Tools, Eclipse Enterprise Tools, and then have choice boxes
in each for project/sub-project relevance which can be used in a
search.

A third proposal would be  to extend the second proposal with a
collection of "presentation intent" flags, e.g. planning, feature
exposition, project proposal, project information, etc.

Of course a mix of all of the above would be interesting, although
probably too detailed. I think the target we have to hit is to allow
presenters fairly accurately connect the intent of  their talks to the
audience, and allow the potential audience a search capability to
allow them to find the presentations that are most relevant to them

 --oh