From: eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Rosenbaum
Sent: Wednesday, September 12,
2007 11:10 AM
To: 'Eclipsecon
Program Committee list'
Subject: RE:
[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Budget and slotallocations
Last year it seemed like it was pretty
difficult to ‘sell’ the short talks. I tried to pitch some
people on them, and the feedback I got was that ten minutes was just not enough
time to put together material. Did anyone else have this
experience? Did we get any feedback if 10 minutes is the right
length? Does it make sense maybe to give 15 minutes each (three per
hour)?
Scott
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[mailto:eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Sent: Wednesday, September 12,
2007 10:01 AM
To: Eclipsecon
Program Committee list
Subject:
[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Budget and slotallocations
EclipseCon Program Committee,
As you are all probably aware, the number of talk slots and the budget are
linked: more talk slots means more rooms we need to rent, more AV we need to
rent, more door monitors, and more comp registrations to give away. In doing
the budget for Mike to present to the Finance Committee, here's what I've come
up with for the slot allocations:
- Tutorials: 80 in 20 parallel sessions on Monday.
Each is two hours and is entitled to two comp registrations. (It is really
important that the tutorials have *hands on results* that the attendees
can take away. It's a lot of work to prepare a good tutorial and that's
why they get two comp registrations.)
- Long talks: 80 in 5 parallel sessions on each of
Tue-Wed-Thu. One hour (50 minutes) and has one comp registration.
- Short talks: 160 in 2 parallel sessions on each
of Tue-Wed-Thu. 10 minutes and has a 20% discount registration coupon. (10
minutes = 1/5 of 50 minutes; 20% = 1/5 of 100%).
I spoke to Doug yesterday and he pointed out that
these are different numbers than the preliminary numbers I had given him (the
maximum space capacity numbers) and, yes, they are. He said that he would re-do
the allocations.
Additionally, here are the relevant dates:
- Sept 24 - Eclipsezilla opens
- Nov 19 - submissions close for all types
- Dec 10 - program 90% completed (basically, the
program is completed but we might leave a few slots open for late breaking
items)
- Feb 7 - program 100% complete
- Bjorn