Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Long Talks

["Pascal Rapicault" <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would it worth looking into the invited talk for these?
For example Jonas Boner had asked for a longer slot, so maybe we could
have him for this.

On Fri, December 6, 2013 05:15, Ian Skerrett wrote:
> Fwiw, I am doing the schedule today so I need any recommendations today.
> We
> actually have only 10 slots for long talks since M2M and Vert.x will each
> get one.
>
>
>
> There are four talks with the long_talk tag that I was a bit surprised:
>
>
> <https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/exploratory-testing-and-session-b
> ased-test-management> Exploratory testing and session-based test
> management
>
>  <https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/fork-ide-build-your-own-sdk-cbi>
> Fork the IDE: Build your own SDK with CBI
>
>
> <https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/hudson-hipp-add-sysadmin-your-cv-
> 35-minutes> Hudson HIPP: add "sysadmin" to your CV in 35 minutes
>
>  <https://www.eclipsecon.org/na2014/session/advanced-tests-tycho> Advanced
> tests in Tycho
>
>
>
> These didn't pop out to me as being a long talk so I am interested in
> understanding why they were tagged? FWIW, two of the talks are from
> Foundation employees and I usually try not to have Foundation employees
> taking the prime spots.
>
>
>
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> Ian Bull
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> Subject: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Long Talks
>
>
>
> The regular speaking slot at EclipseCon is 35 minutes. However, we have 12
> 'long slots'. These are actually 1 hour slots, although I would expect
> people to talk for 45 minutes and leave 10 minutes for questions.
>
>
>
> I've been going through the program and identifying speakers that could
> make
> good use of the extra time. Good candidates include interesting subjects,
> or
> speakers who submitted several talks on the same subject, but we only
> accepted one. Since we have 6 long talks each day -- and they happen in
> parallel -- we should need to ensure that they span different tracks and
> are
> not all given by 'rockstar speakers' (I really didn't want to use that
> term).
>
>
>
> Go through the program and let me know if you see any talks that should be
> 'long'.
>
>
>
> Finally, the crew from Docker has promised me an abstract tomorrow. The
> docker talk will be given by Nick Stinemates.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>
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