From: eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007
8:00 PM
To: Eclipsecon
Program Committee list
Subject: Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee]
Minutes from Today
EclipseCon PC members,
Power bars for all the tutorials is $25,000. It seems outrageous, but
that's what the convention center charged us the last time we had power bars
for all tutorials. And that money has to come from somewhere - either we raise
the registration price (sort of awkward to do now that we've published it) or
we take the money from some other Eclipse program. Thus it would be $25,000 we
couldn't spend on something else important to the Eclipse community, for
example, more download bandwidth or part of the salary for one of our IP people
or receptions at project meetings (like the CDT and Equinox summits) or free
registrations for EclipseCon presenters. Is it really worth $25,000? Or,
to be more precise, would we be willing to change:
- tutorials get two free registrations
to:
- tutorials get ONE free registration and power
bars
??
The logic behind not having power bars in the session rooms is (besides the
price), "how much hands on work can we really expect in a two hour
tutorial?" When it's a half day (four hours) or all day (eight hours), I
can understand wanting to have lots of hands-on exercises during the tutorial -
but in two hours is there really going to be that much hands on activity that
requires a computer to be on all the time? The feedback we've received
from attendees in the past is that a two hour tutorial is just a very long talk
and that there really isn't time to do any serious programming and that they
wishes the speakers didn't try to do exercises in that short time because they
just spent all their time fiddling with the computer and not learning anything.
Comments?
Gaff, Doug wrote:
- Bjorn:
Will the tutorials will have power bars? We need them.
