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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Agenda and plan for the next week
Am 17.10.2013 02:56, schrieb Anne Jacko:
Hi all,

We'd also like to talk more about the Monday small-interest-group dinner idea that Shawn proposed. If you need a refresher, it's below in bold.

Anne Jacko
Eclipse Foundation
503-784-3788 (cell)
Do people agree having BOFs starting right after the sessions is the right
thing to do?

Yes. Especially if the booth crawl receptions after the sessions
before the BoFs has some drinks and light snacks available (I think
this was the case in Boston?). Folks might stick around another hour
for an interesting BoF if they can get a drink and a few crackers,
then go to dinner.


Regarding dinner BoFs after a normal BoF, its probably a nightmare to
organize tables at restaurants. But it might be interesting to offer
some sort of dinner match up roulette. Setup semi-randomly parties of
4-6 folks interested in a common topic for dinner. Its not really a
BoF, its a pre-organized lunch table, at dinner.

Perhaps a simple web application that lets people indicate two things:

 - a style of food;
 - an Eclipse-y topic of discussion;

the app emails folks before the reception introducing the 4-6
attendees and giving a restaurant recommendation complete with
directions from the conference and contact information and nominates a
coordinator. The coordinator can try to get a reservation for the
(small) group, group goes to dinner, enjoys conversation and food.
What about integrating this "app" already into the registration process? Not sure if that's technical possible, but it would give us more time to deal with all the data and the whole idea would be more obvious to the attendees.

Cheers
/Eike

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On Oct 16, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Ian Bull wrote:

Hi everyone,

As you (hopefully) know, we have a PC Meeting tomorrow [1]. As I mentioned before, I'll be off-line for the next week. Ian S has offered to host the meeting tomorrow at 8:30 PT / 11:30 ET / 5:30 CET. I likely won't be checking my work email, but if you really need to get ahold of me you can use my personal email (irbull @ gmail.com).


Here are a few things that I think should be covered:
  1. Make sure your friends / colleague / organizations know about the CfP [2].
  2. Keynote update
  3. Invited speaker update (see below for some information)
  4. Tutorial ideas
  5. Earlybird process
  6. Anything else?

Invited Speaker
  1. Tim Bray: Shawn mentioned he would reach out here.
  2. Docker: I've sent a invitation to Solomon Hykes. It might be a long shot, but let's keep our fingers crossed
  3. Java 8: Gunnar and Ian are working on this
  4. Typesafe: Pascal and Ian are working on this
  5. Node.js: Andrew E. offered to help. Please let us know if you found some leaders in the community that we could reach out to. 
  6. Build tool in the web space:
    • Cedric mentioned a few people here. I looked these people up and I think Jacob Thronton (bootstrap) [3] and Paul Irish [4] would be great. Sindre looks interesting, but he's in Norway.

Have a great week everyone!

Cheers,
Ian


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