[eclipsecon-na-program-committee] EclipseCon 2013 Kick-Off

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for joining the EclipseCon
2013 Program Committee! The PC is made up of:

John Arthorne (program committee chair)
Doug Schaefer (past chair)
Cedric Brun
Gunnar Wagenknecht
Ian Bull
Kevin Sawicki
Lars Vogel
Sven Efftinge
Anne Jacko (operations chair)
Ian Skerrett (conference chair)

I think we have a great group, with
an even mix of new and returning PC members, and good coverage of the diverse
areas under the Eclipse umbrella. You should be receiving login details
shortly from Anne Jacko for the conference wiki. Once you do, you can see
the current PC wiki page here:

https://www.eclipsecon.org/wiki/2013_Program_Committee

I would like to kick things off with
a conference call early next week. We have 9 hours of time zones between
PC members so I think the best time would be mid-morning EDT. How does
11am EDT (5pm CET) work for everyone? If not, does the same time slot on
Tuesday work? In the call we can figure out if there is a better time slot
for the remaining meetings. I expect two meetings in September and two
in October.

The first order of business will be
deciding on the information needed for the call for papers. In particular,
we need to know the talk formats/lengths, and the names of the tracks (e.g.,
modeling/mobile/tools/etc). Give some thought before the call on what length
of talks and tutorials you would like to see. The track names I think are
a bit less important from our perspective, but are useful in marketing
the conference and ensuring we have a good balance of content. I would
like to ask Ian Skerrett to throw out a strawman proposal for tracks and
then we can discuss in the call.

John