EclipseCon BoFs

If my math skills are up to scratch (and I’m pretty confident they are), we have 72 slots for “birds of a feather” (BoF) sessions at EclipseCon this year. Realistically, we’ll probably lose a few of those slots as we get closer to the big event.

As I’ve mentioned in the past, we’re accepting/scheduling BoFs in phases.

In the first phase, Eclipse project BoFs will be scheduled. When you submit your Eclipse project BoF proposal, please either (a) make the title very clear, (b) put something in the description that states “this is the official BoF for the Super-Deluxe GL6000 project”, or (c) add a comment that indicates the officialness of the BoF. Only one proposal per project will be accepted in this first phase. For completeness, the OSGi DevCon 2009 BoF is considered a “project BoF”.

We intend to wrap up phase one on February 16th.

In the second phase, other proposals will be accepted and scheduled.

After that, we’ll keep accepting proposals until we run out of room.

So… get your BoF session proposals in. Register for EclipseCon 2009. Book your hotel and flights. Start advertising your session.

Please indicate—in comments attached to your proposal—any constraints that we need to consider when scheduling. Do you anticipate needing a very large room, or just a small one? Is there a session (talk/tutorial) that we should schedule the BoF before/after? That sort of thing… We’ll do our best.

As I’ve stated before, we’re accepting BoFs in priority order. You should be aware that there will be no projection/presentation technology in the BoF rooms. Further, food and beverages cannot be served in the BoF room as this will get us (”us” includes “you”) in trouble with either (a) the venue, (b) the law, or (c) some combination. If you want food and drink in your session, you really need to talk to Donald to arrange a reception…

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Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader. Wayne is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 31 posts at DZone.