[news.eclipse.eclipsecon] Re: EclipseCon 2009 - Propose a talk

[Lee Anne <nospam_kowalskilee@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christoph,

I'm not on the Program Committee, so this is not anything 'official'. 
However, I went through the submission process last year and I had a 
submission accepted and was a speaker at EclipseCon 2008.

Last year, we did not have to submit any slides or files in the initial 
submission.

The abstract gets displayed at the EclipseCon web site for the 
description of your talk (if it gets accepted). You could take a look at 
the EclipseCon 2008 talk abstracts to see the sort of lengths they had. 
I have seen some weird HTML display effects when people used HTML coding 
in their abstracts, so keep that in mind.

From last year's process also, I don't recall that the submission 
system 'shut down' submissions on a hard time stop. It is a new system 
though for this year. For myself, I would feel safe in submitting by 
11:59:59 Pacific Time, but I am interested in how the Program Committee 
responds to your question.

Hope this helps,
Lee Anne

Christoph Mayerhofer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a few questions to the submission form in the Eclipse Submission 
> System:
>
> - Do we have to submit any slides or files in our first proposal, or is 
> it enough to submit the material after the proposal has been accepted?
> - Is there any character limitation for the Abstract?
> - When is the exact submission deadline (local time, UTC)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Regards,
>
> Christoph.