1. EclipseCon: Our Community Showcase
Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2. Eclipse Summit Europe 2006

3. EclipseCon 2006: Great Success
By all measures, EclipseCon 2006 was successful
Attendee positive (by survey)
Attendance positive (growth)
Revenue positive
Press buzz positive

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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

7. EclipseCon 2007: Program Allocations

8. 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

9. 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