Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse 4 talks and tutorials at EclipseCon

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Teufel wrote on 11/15/2012 11:28:50 AM:
> In general it's hard for "end users" like me who are not
committers 
> to dive deeper into the community or get familiar in how to start
as
> a committer because there is nearly no information about how to do
> it. No help. There are no mentors,  there is nothing. And if
you want to 
> spread the word on EclipsCon you have to pay
everything yourself...

Asking on this list is a great place to start. Committers
are actively communicating through the mailing lists, forums, bugzilla
discussions, IRC, and bi-weekly phone calls. There is lots of information
available on the wiki to get you started as well. Here is a great entry
point to get you started:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute

As for EclipseCon I don't know what to say. There
are roughly 130 sessions at EclipseCon, if all the travel expenses of those
speakers were paid it would need to be very expensive for other attendees
to balance that out. I think the trend in open source conferences is towards
lower admission fees so I wouldn't hold out hope for that changing. The
Eclipse community does have quite a few smaller local events that may be
closer to home for you.

John