Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: EclipseCon 2010 Confe

[Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Esteemed Program Committee,
Regarding free passes:
> The more important point of coupons, passes, that kind of thing
> came up. Everyone is aware of the tensions -
>
> * Speaker can't get travel authorized unless it's a free pass,
> * we can't give out free passes for all
> * we want to reward the good stuff, regardless of talk length
>
> ... we
> the PC must also have a pool of free passes that we can
> dispense for what we perceive as quality. There was a general
> agreement on that.
>
>   
Yes, that's the plan. In the past EclipseCon has had a policy of "N% 
discount for M minutes of talking" but this year we'll just leave the 
decisions for who gets free or discounted passes up to the program 
committee. We did that (for the most part) with ESE this year and the 
ESE PC produced a very nice program and I believe the EclipseCon PC will 
do an even better job under Oisin's leadership.

My only request is that you/we find a way to avoid making it look like 
an in-crowd/clique thing were the friends of the PC get all the free 
passes and the out-crowd gets nothing.
> There was a suggestion
> that perhaps submitters be made aware of the free pass pool
> and that they might want to help the PC decide by submitting
> either an extended abstract (abstract + paper), or indeed,
> mirabile dictu, produce their slides early, i.e. compete.
>   
Or maybe even a youtube video of themselves giving the talk itself!

- Bjorn