| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] SOA Track |
Hi Program Committee,
here is a summary of some conversation that went on in the past week between some of the SOA PMC (Marc Gille) and me and Ralph and Anne.
If you look at the submission http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2012/sessions/soa-track-mutiple-sessions it has only a small abstract but a pretty long PDF attached to it.
Its submitted as a tutorial but only because as a tutorial because that has the length that the SOA people like to have. They had some early conversation with Mike and Ralph that led to this submission. They also sent an email to Ralph and myself once the submission was in.
Given that we have a total of 13 tutorial submissions and 5 slots I saw little chance that this will get anywhere given that its not even a tutorial and tutorial are pretty popular. I asked Anne if there is small room somewhere that we could give them in parallel to the tutorials. We have the Seminarrooms (in the basement), both of them, which are not taken during the tutorials. I also suggest to them (as a alternative) to do a “SOA night” in parallel to the BoFs where they could have 3 or 4 hours in one of the rooms.
At the same time I asked to estimate the number of people coming. Their goal is to get 30 people to call it a success which is not that much given the 600 attendee for the conference that we are aiming at (hopefully we get there).
After these choices the SOA PMC decided that they would call off the tutorial and their favorite choice would be to have a small room in parallel to the tutorial. People who choose to the SOA track would not be able to attend the tutorials (they are aware of this). We would put the SOA sessions as regular submissions into the system (4 sessions) after the 31st of July and add a SOA track to the program. They don’t get speaker passes for this SOA track and need to do some marketing to get people interested. Everyone can attend the SOA track (its not a closed session but open to everyone)
So here is an action item for everyone in the PC. Are we all ok with this ? Anyone fears that it would distract people from the tutorials ? Anyone feels that we shouldn’t have this kind of special content ? Strong feeling pro or con ? Questions ? Anything clear ?
Please vote +1 and -1 (and 0 if you must J ). Raise concerns. Now is a good time.
Thanks
Christian Campo