EclipseCon: Our Community Showcase Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Eclipse Summit Europe 2006

EclipseCon 2006: Great Success By all measures, EclipseCon 2006 was successful Attendee positive (by survey) http://www.eclipsecon.org/2006/SurveyResults/summary.html Attendance positive (growth) Revenue positive Press buzz positive

EclipseCon 2007: Even Better Operations Conference Chair: Bjorn Freeman-Benson Same meeting planners (Meeting Strategies Worldwide) Same location and facility Same wireless provider Same audio-visual company Lower price?

EclipseCon 2007: Sponsorships Sponsors Chair: Donald Smith Already taking reservations Gold, Silver, Individual Sponsored Tutorials Sponsored Talks Eclipse is about the community and that includes the ecosystem and thus EclipseCon is about the commercial side as well as the open source side

EclipseCon 2007: Program Program Chair: Rich Gronback Improved Eclipsezilla for open and transparent submissions Long talks, short talks, tutorials, demos, panels Smaller talk rooms Demos not hidden away Dedicated rooms for each kind of presentation “Vertical” short talks (saves money) “Program committee” will be distributed to the “edges” – to the PMCs and Working Groups Presentations will be recruited and chosen by experts Unused allocations will be distributed to other groups

EclipseCon 2007: Program Allocations

EclipseCon 2007: Program Dates Tutorials submitted by Nov 1st; selected by Nov 15th Long Talks / Panels submitted by Nov 15th; selected by Dec 1st Or Dec 1st – Dec 15th ? Short Talks / Demos submitted by Jan 15th; selected by Jan 30th Review, accept, reject process must be open and transparent using Eclipsezilla Instructions will be provided Community input should be accepted, but voting will not be used Tutorial Slides submitted by Jan 31st for USB drive

Your Turn You all are key attendees for the Eclipse Summit Europe You all are the Program Committee for EclipseCon Plan for recruiting Plan for selection Ideas for keynotes? You all are the Sponsors for the Summit and EclipseCon Plan to attend Plan to sponsor This is a critical year Community involvement is more important than ever