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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] keynote idea

Greg Wilson [1] might also be interesting. For those of you not familiar with Greg, he's authored a few books on how Open Source software is built [2,3,4] (including a chapter on Eclipse that was contributed by Kim).  He gave a Keynote at MSR (Mining Software Repositories) [5,6] about the importance of brining practitioners and researchers together.  Here is another link to a talk he gave on the importance of empirical evidence [7].

He has been talking a lot lately about why Software engineers (and especially those building tools... hum... that's us) need to look at empirical evidence instead of simply building things that some self proclaimed expert says. 

[1] http://third-bit.com/
[2] http://www.amazon.ca/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believe/dp/0596808321/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346873955&sr=1-6 
[3] http://www.amazon.ca/Architecture-Open-Source-Applications-II/dp/1105571815/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346874180&sr=1-21
[4] http://www.amazon.ca/Architecture-Open-Source-Applications/dp/1257638017/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346874217&sr=1-1
[5] http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/4509.html
[6] http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/two-solitudes
[7] http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/12/05/where-is-the-evidence/

Cheers,
Ian

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes Jeff would be great if he is willing. Just to throw out brainstorming ideas, I have also been thinking about:

- integrating social capabilities in software. Last year we had Mik on social software development, but I think a lot of developers are wondering how they can get on the social bandwagon and integrate social capabilities into their own applications.
- Developing software in the "post PC" era. Something on the impact of changing computer form factors in software development: touch, voice, mobile, etc.
- I have been reading Don Norman again recently and I think he would be great, but probably too expensive: http://www.jnd.org/
- I have no idea what this is, but I keep hearing about an imminent Microsoft dev tools announcement that could be interesting (or not)

http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2012/presentation/Closing%20Keynote:%20A%20yet%20to%20be%20disclosed%20project%20in%20the%20Development%20Tools%20space

Everyone keep thinking about this, both general areas and specific speaker names.

John




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What do people think of inviting Jeff Norris from NASA back to do another keynote at EclipseCon 2013?  Curiousity is doing some amazing things on Mars so it might be fun to get an update.   Jeff also is such a great speaker.

Here is a recent example from a game conference.  
http://www.twitch.tv/pax/b/331118607


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