Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe

It’s getting closer to EclipseCon 2011 so I thought it would be a good time to talk logistics!

Registration
Be sure to register now for the best price; early registration ends on February 14. Also, I recommend that you make your hotel and flight reservations now. The hotel always sells out pretty early and the other options aren’t as convenient in my opinion.
Hotels: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/hotels/
Taxi Shares: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseCon_2011_Taxi_Shares

Evangelize your Sessions
There are lots of good sessions this year and so you are in competition with other sessions at times. The solution? Get out there and promote yourself and your talk: in your blog, Twitter, on email lists and so on. There’s no shame in a little advertising!

Spelling
The conference organizers will be extracting your name, session title, affiliation and so on from the website after February 11 to create the printed program. If you want the printed program to have your name spelled correctly and your efforts attributed to your employer, now is the time to double check all that.

WiFi and Internet Expectations
There is WiFi throughout the convention venue. The WiFi is generally pretty good, but there is only so much bandwidth… I recommend that you don’t give a session that is dependent on the internet… find a way to do everything locally. Otherwise, to quote Murphy’s Law… “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” On a side note, if you absolutely need a reliable Internet connection for your session, email info@eclipsecon.org with a serious justification.

Tutorial Presenters
For tutorial presenters, there will be five USB memory sticks for each tutorial to help you distribute the software to your attendees. You need to pick these up at the registration desk and put your own files on them. They are yours to keep. On top of that, there will be student workers to help tutorial presenters this year. If you are giving a tutorial, please be thinking of ways your student can help (distributing USB keys, tell jokes, etc.). Email info@eclipsecon.org for more information.

Slide Templates
There are no slide templates… be creative on your own!

I look forward to seeing everyone at the conference. Let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the EclipseCon 2011 auditions yesterday, it was fun to watch them!

1. Ekke Gentz, Stop Writing Boring (Business App) Unit Tests
2. Paul Beusterien, The Mobile Web and Eclipse
3. Serge Beauchamp, Deadlocks: The beginning of the end
4. Johnson Yan, New Trend in Java Computing – A Silicon Based OSGi Platform for Real Time Embedded Computing
5. Stefan Dimov, Click out your JPA 2.0 model
6. Mustafa Isik & Sebastian Schmidt, INTERSTELLAR THERMONUCLEAR WAR … with ECF – Multiplayer Game Development for High-Latency Mobile Networks
7. Saurav Sarkar, Be a Columbus and explore your models through new EMF Model Query2
8. Alberto Sillitti, Source Code Evolution Analysis and Visualization with Lagrein
9. Frederic Madiot & Gregoire Dupé, Dynamically extend and customize your modeling tools with EMF Facet
10. Werner Keil, UOMo and OSGi Measurement

After some tough deliberation the EclipseCon program committee picked Serge Beauchamp’s session to be accepted into the program. Thanks to everyone who participated and if you liked doing the sessions, please let me know and we can do them again next year (or even at EclipseCon itself). On the whole, we’re coming to an end on choosing the EclipseCon program and expect to send out the notification emails tomorrow.

Just to let people know the EclipseCon 2011 program will be selected by the end of this week. The EclipseCon Program Committee has just about locked down selections on tutorials and extended talks. We are working hard to finish crafting the program and selecting the standard talks. If you want to influence the Program Committee with their decisions, please comment on the 200+ standard talk submissions in the system.

On a side note, we are also holding another audition session this Wednesday.

The agenda is as follows:

1. Ekke Gentz, Stop Writing Boring (Business App) Unit Tests
2. Paul Beusterien, The Mobile Web and Eclipse
3. Serge Beauchamp, Deadlocks: The beginning of the end
4. Farooq Kamal, ZINRO – A RCP, OSGI and SPRING based framework for developing scalable client server applications
5. Mik Kersten, Bringing open source collaboration to the masses
6. Jonson Yan, New Trend in Java Computing – A Silicon Based OSGi Platform for Real Time Embedded Computing
7. Stefan Dimov, Click out your JPA 2.0 model
8. Mustafa Isik & Sebastian Schmidt, INTERSTELLAR THERMONUCLEAR WAR with ECF – Multiplayer Game Development for High-Latency Mobile Networks
9. Tristan Faure, Gendoc2 WYWIWYG (What You Write Is What You Get)
10. Saurav Sarkar, Be a Columbus and explore your models through new EMF Model Query2
11. Alberto Sillitti, Andrejs Jermakovics and Giancarlo Succi Source Code Evolution Analysis and Visualization with Lagrein

Please register for the audition and join the program committee in watching these excellent submissions. You may even learn something new about the Eclipse community you had no idea about! Good luck everyone!