Regarding EclipseCon, we do try to balance lower registration cost with paying for speakers. We try to make EclipseCon a community event that is inclusive of as many people as possible, so we tend towards lower registration costs.
As John stated we do however have EclipseCon in Germany and a new one in France, plus some smaller 1-day events and DemoCamps. If EclipseCon is too far away maybe try to attend one of these other events.
Ian
From: e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Arthorne
Sent: November-15-12 3:18 PM
To: E4 Project developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse 4 talks and tutorials at EclipseCon
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
