This is an FYI for all of you CDT
conference attendees who are considering attending the Languages Symposium as
well. I was forwarded the information below from someone who responded to
Bjorn’s initial mailing. I sent mail to Bjorn asking to be invited
(and I have been). I also asked him to send mail to Sebastien so that
Sebastien could let the rest of you know, but then I remembered that I got an “out-of-office”
response from Sebastien earlier this week. So, here it is. I guess
you need to send mail to Bjorn if you want to be invited.
Leo
From: Bjorn Freeman-Benson
[mailto:bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005
10:09 AM
To: eaw@xxxxxxxxx;
doug.gaff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mike@xxxxxxxxxxx; bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxx; twagner@xxxxxxx;
don.wills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; david.ascher@xxxxxxxxx; Recoskie, Chris; Gingrich,
Paul; guy@xxxxxxxx; fabiofz@xxxxxxxxx; dkeefe@xxxxxxx;
martin_aeschlimann@xxxxxxxxxx; david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx; shaver@xxxxxxxxxxx;
dschaefer@xxxxxxx; Darin Wright; John Wiegand
Subject: The first "slightly
disorganized but very useful" Eclipse Languages Symposium
Everyone,
Thanks for the RSVPs. It looks like we have at least seventeen interested
people for this workshop, so we're going to go ahead. The current
attendee list is:
Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Fabio
Zadronzy (maybe)
Chris Recoskie, TI
Guy
Harpaz, Zend
David Ascher, Cisco
Martin Aeschlimann,
IBM
David Williams, IBM
Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse
Derrick Keefe, QNX
Mike Shaver, Mozilla
Don Wills
Paul Gingrich, TI
Doug Gaff, WindRiver
Reggie Reed, Motorola
Doug Schaefer, QNX
Tim Wagner, BEA
Ed Warnicke, Motorola
If you know of other people who would be interested and interesting, please let
me know so that I can invite them. The goal is to get a group of smart
engineers and researchers together for two days to talk about, and plan the
future of, language support in Eclipse. The symposium will be a very
interactive workshop - not a conference with formal papers and lots of bored
listeners reading email on their laptops.
The symposium will be held October 27th and 28th at the QNX headquarters at 175
Terence Matthews Crescent, Kanata, ON, Canada. There is no registration fee
for this workshop which also means that you're responsible for your own
transportation and accommodation. I'll try to put together a recommendations
list.
The schedule will be 8:30-5pm on Thursday and 8:30-3ish or 4ish on Friday (it
depends on how many people will be taking earlier flights and thus how many
people will be left). There were four basic topics suggested for discussion:
- Eclipse Language Support for dynamically typed
languages (Perl, Tcl, Python, PHP, Ruby,etc).
- Support for writing Eclipse plugins in
dynamically typed languages (Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc).
- Generic compiled language debugging
infrastructure and implementation
- Current state and future of the text and document
model in Eclipse
The format I'd like to use is that each attendee puts
together a position paper on their topic (or papers on their topics). These are
meant to be outlines/discussion starters, not academic papers and they will not
be published. We will choose a few of these and then ask those people to
moderate discussions around their topic. You might bring a short slide deck
around your subject, or better yet a demo, but the idea here is an interactive
technically deep discussion not a presentation. How's about we all get the
position papers to me by Friday, October 14th?
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