<h1> EclipseCon</h1>
<h2>PMC Minutes December 12, 2006</h2>
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      <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>Attending</b></td>
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      <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>&nbsp;Late&nbsp;</b></td>
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      <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>&nbsp;Regrets&nbsp;</b></td>
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      <td align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"><b>&nbsp;Missing&nbsp;</b></td>
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      <td>John Duimovich</td>
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      <td>Wayne Beaton</td>
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      <td>Bjorn Freeman-Benson</td>
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      <td>Ward Cunningham</td>
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      <td>Cliff Schmidt</td>
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<p>Discussed our individual and collective prioritized lists for the EclipseCon
long talks. Our resulting list is as follows (our candidate selections are above
the line):</p>

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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3721">3721</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3721">Dynamic Languages Toolkit</a></td>
      <td>Everyone was positive about this talk, even though the project is very
        new to Eclipse. Some concern about the speakers' abilities.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3855">3855</a></td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3855">Task-focused programming with Mylar</a></td>
      <td>Everyone was positive about this talk.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3758">3758</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3758">EOS - Eclipse on Swing</a></td>
      <td>Interesting technology, sure to generate audience interest and
        discussion. Some concern that it wasn't an Eclipse project, but nothing
        in the rules said that it has to be.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3699">3699</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3699">Unifying Eclipse Collaboration with Corona</a></td>
      <td>Interesting project with working code, interesting ideas.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3690">3690</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3690">Prototyping, Automating, Exploring - Interactively Scripting Eclipse</a></td>
      <td>Scripting continues to be a hot topic among users and thus among
        EclipseCon attendees. Must make sure that this is not an introductory
        talk because EclipseCon attendees prefer fast-paced cutting-edge
        material - they already know the basics.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3777">3777</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3777">Parallel Tools Platform: Now and Future</a></td>
      <td>Good project, solving hard problems, and very relevant - everyone is
        going to be coding with 128-way desktops in just a few years.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3833">3833</a></td>
      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3833">RAP</a></td>
      <td>Interesting technology, but not sure that it would be quite the
        audience draw that the talks above the line would be.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3744">3744</a></td>
      <td> <a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3744"> CompositeTable - Visual tabular data for SWT UIs</a></td>
      <td>Again, interesting technology, but we were not able to convince
        ourselves that one widget is worth an hour of talking. Or that it would
        attract much an audience to that hour.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3778">3778</a></td>
      <td> <a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3778"> Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework Embracing the Server Side</a></td>
      <td>OHF is solving hard problems around data security and
        inter-operability, but we felt that a talk about a framework about
        health care just wasn't going to attract a large audience.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3852">3852</a></td>
      <td> <a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3852"> Build &amp; Release Management using Buckminster</a></td>
      <td>Similarly, build and configuration management is an essential
        technology - nobody can do modern software development without it - but
        we couldn't imagine a significantly-sized audience wanting to hear about
        it for an hour.</td>
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      <td><a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3769">3769</a></td>
      <td> <a href="http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3769"> The Eclipse Communication Framework: Let's Talk</a></td>
      <td>ECF is interesting but again it's a plumbing framework and unlikely to
        attract the kind of attendee/audience that the six top choices will. We
        also considered that ECF does not have compelling new features for this
        year that would attract an audience.&nbsp;</td>
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      <td>...others...</td>
      <td>We read and scanned the remaining papers and will do so again this
        next week.</td>
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<p><b>ACTION ITEM: </b>[All] Re-read the other long talk proposals to see if
there are any that should bump one of these.</p>

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<p>Current project mentors:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Bjorn
    <ul>
      <li><a href="/aperi/">Aperi</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/">Buckminster</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/corona/">Corona</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/">Process Framework (EPF)</a></li>
      <li> <a href="/higgins/">Higgins</a></li>
      <li> Linux Distros</li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mylar/">Mylar</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Cliff
    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/alf/">ALF</a></li>
      <li>Subversive</li>
      <li><a href="/ptp/">Parallel Tools Project</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Ward
    <ul>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecf/">Communication Framework (ECF)</a></li>
      <li> g-Eclipse</li>
      <li> <a href="/vtp/">Voice Tools Project</a></li>
      <li><font color="#FF0000">*</font><a href="/laszlo/">IDE for Laszlo</a> </li>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ohf">OHF</a> </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Wayne
    <ul>
      <li><a href="/apogee/">Apogee (ECM)</a></li>
      <li>COSMOS</li>
      <li> <font color="#FF0000">*</font><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/ecesis">ECESIS</a></li>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/phoenix/">Phoenix</a></li>
      <li><a href="/rap/">Rich Ajax Platform (RAP)</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>John
    <ul>
      <li> <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/bpel/">BPEL</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/dash/">Dash</a></li>
      <li>DLTK</li>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/nebula/">Nebula</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/photran/">Photran</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
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