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We had some much fun running the EclipseCon Audition last time, why not do it again?

The final audition will be held on December 15th, you have until the 13th to apply…

To apply for an audition you need to:

1. Have submitted an EclipseCon proposal
2. Send an e-mail to audition@eclipse.org with your name and the link to your proposal

Doing an audition will definitely help your proposal get noticed by the EclipseCon Program Committee. If your proposal gets rejected and you didn’t do an audition, I don’t want to hear any complaints. At the current state, only about 30% of the proposals will get accepted so doing an audition can only help your odds.

Good luck!

After the submission deadline of November 30th, we have over 300 great proposals to comb through with many coming in at the last minute (thank you for flooding my email inbox). The main goal of the EclipseCon program committee is to create a high-quality and compelling program.

To that end, the Program Committee will accept late submissions for the program. However, it is also the goal to have the program mostly selected by December 7 and finalized by December 12. Therefore late submissions are given lower priority unless they are of exceptional quality or fill a gap in the technical program.

So the bottom line is yes, you can submit late, but it gets a lower precedence.

Want to help the Program Committee with its selection process? The EclipseCon submission system allows you to comment on each proposal…

If you are really looking forward to a talk or are impressed with the speaker, please comment so you have your voice heard. The EclipseCon Program committee looks at each proposal in depth and takes comments from the community inconsideration.

Good luck!

Once again, the EclipseCon program committee had too difficult of a time picking five early-bird selections from the 100+ submissions, so we cheated and picked 6! Congratulations to the following sessions for submitted their proposal early and which have now been selected and will become part of the program:

• Tamar Cohen, Standard Talk, “NASA Ames uses Eclipse RCP for real-time situational awareness of remote robots”
• Jason Van Zyl, Extended Tutorial, “Building Eclipse plugins and RCP applications with Tycho, Nexus & Hudson”
• Glyn Normington, Standard Talk, “Donating a mature project to Eclipse”
• Benjamin Muskalla and Steffen Pingel, Standard Talk, “Tired of CVS? Pimp your productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn”
• Kiran Chittargi, Extended Talk, “‘Flying High’ with OSGi and Open Source”
• Marc Khouzam, Patrick Chuong, Dobrin Alexiev, Extended Talk, “Staying ahead of the multi-core revolution with CDT debug”

Thank you everyone and here’s a reminder that the deadline for submissions is November 30, 2010.

Don’t let this next deadline pass you by as the Program Committee is eagerly awaiting your submissions!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the EclipseCon 2011 Auditions last week!

Congratulations to Frank Rimlinger and Anthony Juckel for winning the EclipseCon Audition Sessions. The Program Committee had a difficult time picking a winner, so we picked two! Frank’s talk, titled “Practical Mathematical Proof of Correctness” and Anthony’s talk on “High Performance Tabular Databinding” are now both marked as accepted in the EclipseCon Submissions System and will be part of the conference program announced later in December. We thank all our pariticpants very much and remind everyone that the deadline for submissions is November 30, 2010.

By the way, you can watch the sessions online now!

If you enjoyed this style of presentations, let me know and we’ll look to do something again in the future (or even at EclipseCon).

The EclipseCon Program Committee pleased to announce the EclipseCon Audition!

What’s EclipseCon Audition? Well, it’s your opportunity to do a quick presentation regarding what you want to talk about at EclipseCon in the fun Ignite-style format. If you have never seen an Ignite-style presentation before, I highly recommend you look at some of the ones available online.

In the end, take this as a chance to sell your idea to the Eclipse community and Program Committee as there is limited spots at EclipseCon. A winner will be chosen from the auditions and get a guaranteed speaking spot at EclipseCon based on their submission! On top of that, you’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your idea or technology to the Eclipse community in the consumable format of 5 minutes. So make each minute count 🙂

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.