Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Are we diverse enough?

[Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do hope that we can get more representation from
Typesafe/Scala/Play/Akka.  They generally created really interesting
technology (and as Ian says, they are the cool kids right now).  But
that being said, I don't think we need more than one talk on Play.
The first one that John links to above is also my pick as well since
it shows Play in a very Eclipsy way.

And having a Scala talk would be nice, too, but all of the Scala
sessions are rated quite low.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think we have a tendency to pick speakers we know about because there is
> less risk, but it is good to challenge that. I don't think it is necessarily
> a problem if some companies that are involved in lots of different Eclipse
> projects to have several speakers. The question is whether we are
> overlooking some potentially great topics/speakers because we stick with
> what we know.
>
> I guess we haven't gotten to the "cool stuff" category yet, but this one on
> the Play framework from a Typesafe speaker looks interesting:
>
> https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/rapid-reactive-webapp-development-play-eclipse
>
> There is another talk on the play framework but the speaker's background on
> the topic is unclear and I voted it very low as a duplicate:
>
> https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/play-web-framework-rocks
>
>
> John
>
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> From:        "Pascal Rapicault" <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date:        11/22/2013 04:06 PM
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> I'm looking at the talks that are currently accepted and I'm wondering if
> we are really diverse enough in the number of companies that are speaking.
> For example I can see that the following companies have 4 talks or more:
> (sorted by alphabetical order)
> - Ericsson
> - EclipseSource
> - IBM
> - Itemis
> - Obeo
>
> and that yet a company like Typesafe who is a cool kid of the java
> ecosystem and have submitted 5 talks got none accepted. Their only
> representation is Jonas talk.
>
> What do you think?
>
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