Re: [GT2005] Cocoon GT Talks!

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

Le 8 sept. 05, à 07:07, Arje Cahn a écrit :

...Could everyone who feels the need to do so please state his opinion!?...

The "must" talks, in no particular order:

My opinion is that selecting which talks to run is a hard task, the best thing would be to setup a second track...but if it's not possible you'll have to make hard choices. If a second track is not possible, how about having some lightning talks instead of just crossing out stuff? For some of the talks below, I guess people could prepare a demo online, or a paper, and be given 5-10 minutes to present its essentials and make themselves visible for (out of stage) questions. Here's my (personal and biased) attempt at classifying the talks, with a preference for talks which could help convince more people that Cocoon is for them. Flame at will.

01 - Torsten Schlabach:
        "All about URIs or: Find your sources
        (protocols from file:// to jcr:// and beyond)"

It can get a bit technical but it's a powerful part of Cocoon that is often not very well understood.

02 - Carsten Ziegeler
        "Past, Present and Future of the Cocoon Portal"

I know we've seen it at ApacheCon already, but IMHO the portal deserves to be more visible

04 - Andrew Savory
        "Simplifying Cocoon"

Yes, bring us (what's good in) Rails!

05 - Daniel Fagerström
        "Cocoon Blocks"

Need to talk about the (near) future.

06 - Sylvain Wallez
        "Something about AJAX"

How could we not have ajax in amsterdam?

07 - Bertrand Delacretaz
        "Cocoon Bricks: best practices by example"    

Back to Earth..

The "nice to have" talks, in order of preference from my biased point of view Talks which (to me) seem to apply to a narrower audience, deeper technical stuff, etc.

03 - Torsten Curdt
        "Rapid application development with cocoon - javaflow and the
        compiling class loader"

Very close to be a must though

09 - Andrew Savory / Massimo Sonego
        "What we get up to with Cocoon"

Not sure about that one, if it's about success stories it could move to the "must" category

08 - Alfred Nathaniel
        "XSP Tips and Traps"

A narrower audience probably, but still important

11 - Max Pfingsthorn
        "CForms libraries: How Cocoon forms libraries make your life easier"

Specific to CForms development, but important as well...can we have a second room? ;-)

13 - Jack Ivers / Joh Berry / Scott Roth / Vadim Gritsenko
        "Performance / XSLT processors running with Cocoon"
14 - Nico Verwer
        "Performance / A case with very big XML documents (100's of megs)"

These two could certainly be combined, but maybe a paper on performance could be nearly as good as a talk (with the basic assumption that there's not enough space for all talks, of course).

Now to the "could be crossed out if space is missing" talks.

10 - Michael Wechner
        "What Daisy, Hippo and Lenya can learn from each other!"

We've had something very similar last year.

12 - Lars Huttar
        "Sitemap Browser: Using Cocoon to Explore Cocoon Sitemaps"

The tool in itself looks way cool, but maybe a good online demo with some q&a time with Lars in another room for those who need it would also be an efficient way of showing it.

Hope this helps,
-Bertrand

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