Thanks for the information how to get started for contributing. I understand your arguments regarding costs and as I have already written I will prepare my nexts talks here in germany. France sounds interesting. In local demo groups I have already spoken and will continue.
Cheerio Marc 2012/11/15 Ian Skerrett <[email protected]> > Regarding EclipseCon, we do try to balance lower registration cost with > paying for speakers. We try to make EclipseCon a community event that is > inclusive of as many people as possible, so we tend towards lower > registration costs.**** > > ** ** > > As John stated we do however have EclipseCon in Germany and a new one in > France, plus some smaller 1-day events and DemoCamps. If EclipseCon is too > far away maybe try to attend one of these other events.**** > > ** ** > > Ian**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *John Arthorne > *Sent:* November-15-12 3:18 PM > *To:* E4 Project developer mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [e4-dev] Eclipse 4 talks and tutorials at EclipseCon**** > > ** ** > > Marc Teufel wrote on 11/15/2012 11:28:50 AM: > > In general it's hard for "end users" like me who are not committers > > to dive deeper into the community or get familiar in how to start as > > a committer because there is nearly no information about how to do > > it. No help. There are no mentors, there is nothing. And if you want to > > spread the word on EclipsCon you have to pay everything yourself... > > Asking on this list is a great place to start. Committers are actively > communicating through the mailing lists, forums, bugzilla discussions, IRC, > and bi-weekly phone calls. There is lots of information available on the > wiki to get you started as well. Here is a great entry point to get you > started: > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute > > As for EclipseCon I don't know what to say. There are roughly 130 sessions > at EclipseCon, if all the travel expenses of those speakers were paid it > would need to be very expensive for other attendees to balance that out. I > think the trend in open source conferences is towards lower admission fees > so I wouldn't hold out hope for that changing. The Eclipse community does > have quite a few smaller local events that may be closer to home for you. > > John**** > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > >
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