How To Propose a Talk or Tutorial

Third, Category of Presentation

Third, choose the category for your presentation. Your choice of category determines who will review your proposal. The correct category means that you'll have sympathetic and knowledgable reviewers; the incorrect category means you'll have puzzled and confused and quick-to-reject reviewers. It is your responsibility to submit your proposal to the most appropriate category. (The program committees will not re-assign your miscategorized submission.) Choose well!

• Business - The business category is looking for long talks, short talks and panel submissions related to doing business with Open Source. Both practical and academic experiences are welcome. Topics can include things such as business models (making money with open source), legal issues and marketing experiences.
• C/C++ - The C/C++ category focuses on the use of Eclipse technologies for writing programs in C and/or C++. Obviously, this includes the CDT, but this category has a broader focus on entire end-to-end solutions with the CDT as its platform and user's experiences adopting these technologies.
• Data Tooling - The Data Tooling category is for sessions concentrating on data-centric frameworks, tools and applications in Eclipse. Examples include tools for working with relational or object databases, or drivers for Open Data Access (ODA). The most appropriate proposals are in areas similar to those addressed by the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) project, regardless of whether DTP components themselves are actually used. For example, while DTP delivers a SQL editor, it would still be interesting to receive talk proposals about alternative SQL editors based in Eclipse.
• Emerging Technology - Eclipse is not only a great framework for existing IDEs, it's also an enabling platform for new research in languages, collaboration, and all aspects of software development. The Emerging Technology category at EclipseCon is for those interesting, new, leading-edge tools and frameworks built on or around the existing Eclipse projects.
• Industry Vertical - The industry vertical category is looking for short talks and panel submissions related to the use of Eclipse technology within specific industry verticals such as Automotive, Healthcare or Finance. Topics can be either of a technical or business nature and could cover emerging domain specific platforms or other solutions for the vertical.
• Java - This category focuses on topics around Java development:
  • Eclipse tooling for Java and Java extensions (JDT, AJDT, PDE, ...)
  • the Java language and runtime environment, Java-like languages (J2SE 6.0 and the future)
  • Agile software development with Java
  We're looking for a good mix of tutorials, technical talks and experience reports.
• Mobile and Embedded - This category focuses on mobile and embedded technology in Eclipse. We are looking for talks that cover usage or extension of existing Eclipse projects for mobile Java and C++ application development or for general embedded tooling. We are interested in industry vertical open source solutions and experiences in the embedded and mobile space. We are interested in embedded applications of the DSDP projects (DD, TM, eRCP, MTJ, TmL, NAB), CDT, and TPTP.
• Modeling - This category is focused on topics related to the range of Eclipse Modeling Project technologies: Meta-modeling, domain-specific languages, diagramming, model transformation, and code generation. Submissions of particular interest will cover multiple technologies and Modeling project integration points. Of course, a range of standard talks, both introductory and advanced, on the core technologies are welcome.
• Committer and Contributor - The goal of this category is to enable new and experienced Eclipse committers and contributors to work effectively with and for the Eclipse community. Presentations will include topics covering how to work in the open, how the Eclipse foundation operates, and how to foster or be a successful contributor or committer. Talks focusing on peer and community interactions, ecosystem building, the Eclipse foundation and governance model, licensing and the Eclipse IP process, Eclipse project initiation, growth and maintenance, and the Eclipse development process will all be considered.
• OSGi DevCon - OSGi(TM) technology forms the foundation of Eclipse, it provides the dynamic component framework that enables Eclipse plugins (bundles) to work together. OSGi Techology consists of a small framework with a set of standardized services. The framework allows applications to collaborate in a single VM through a dynamic service model. It is beneficial to use OSGi technology in most Java applications: embedded, client, and server. OSGi technology is widely supported by the industry with several major open source projects implementing the OSGi specifications (Apache Felix, Eclipse Equinox, Knopflerfish, Concierge), many commercial implementations and also standardized through the JCP. This year, the OSGi Alliance again holds its Developers' Conference via the OSGi category at EclipseCon 2008
• Eclipse as a Platform - The Eclipse project had its humble beginnings as a tooling platform. As time passed, Eclipse evolved into something known as the Rich Client Platform (RCP) as people realized that its IDE-oriented infrastructure was useful for building general applications. Eclipse has continued to evolve and now can be seen as a runtime platform that spans scenarios from clients to servers to handhelds and beyond. This category is devoted to the building blocks that makes Eclipse as a runtime platform a reality.
• Rich Client Platform - n the RCP category, we are looking for long talk, short talk, and tutorial submissions focusing on:
  • The RCP itself and its components
  • Extensions to the base RCP
  • Experience reports from RCP adopters
  • Best practices for RCP development
• Reporting - Topics that show using Eclipse tools and frameworks for business intelligence and reporting applications. In particular, this category is focused on applications of BIRT project components. We are interested in report development, BIRT integration, using the BIRT extension points, and integration of the BIRT Chart components. Preference will be given to presentations that reflect real world experience.
• SOA - The SOA track is soliciting short talks, long talks, and tutorials that are pertinent to SOA-guided solution development and delivery. Subject matter can include experiences of SOA, evaluations of existing SOA tool surfaces, brief demonstrations of SOA operational support, SOA-style modeling and provisioning. Of course, it's not limited to just those higher-level topics. SOA developers need to deal with multiple development technologies, such as Web Services, REST-style services, Business Processes, Choreography of Services, Complex Event processing, and all of the standards and conventions pertaining to those technologies. The SOA Track is interested in contributions that evaluate or demonstrate Eclipse-based tools in these finer-grained areas.
• Test & Performance - This category covers topics related to test and performance tooling that leverage Eclipse. Test and Performance tooling is used throughout the software development and test life cycle, from early unit testing, profiling, and tuning to post-deployment monitoring, tracing, and log analysis. This category is focused on the implementation, extension, and use of test and performance tooling - both open source and commercial - targeting a broad spectrum of systems including embedded, stand-alone, distributed, and enterprise. There is particular interest in exploitation and user experience of the Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) project.
• Tools - This track is to showcase innovative Eclipse-based tooling. Eclipse has greatly expanded its range of tooling outside of Java-based software development only, and is now used to support a variety of other kinds of tooling:
  • Scripting and Other Language Tools (e.g. PHP, COBOL, Ruby, VoiceXML, etc)
  • Team Collaboration Support Tools (e.g. Bug Tracking, Planning, Messaging, VOIP, RT Collaboration, etc)
  • User Interface Creation Tools
  • Tools for Specific Frameworks and Libraries (e.g. Spring, AspectJ, Hibernate, etc)
  • Tools for Alternative Hardware Architectures (e.g. parallel applications)
  • Tools to Automate Build and Deployment
  • Other Tools to Support Software Development Lifecycle
  • Tools Intended for Use by Non-Developers
• Web Tools - For the Web Tools category we want submissions for two types of Eclipse developers as the audience. First, those where the audience are those interested in creating and debugging Web Applications based on standards-oriented technologies such as XHTML, JavaScript, and Java EE Specifications (including AJAX, JSP, JSF, EJB, JPA).

  Second, those where the audience are those adopters who are interested in how to extend the Web Tools Platform Project. Feel free to consider this the default category for anything "web related" that doesn't have an obvious home else where, and we'll move it to another category if appropriate. As some examples, PHP related talks would probably be best assessed in the Tools category, and server side eclipse talks would likely go to the Platform or OSGi category.

• Other - Do you have ideas and experiences about the Eclipse Framework? Do these experiences not fit into the other categories? This is the category for you. We are looking for great stories about the Eclipse. Themes that span multiple projects or that are germane to all projects are preferred.

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