Boris, Thanks for following up on this. I have been on vacation for the last three weeks and failed to get anything done during this time.
It would be great if you can get involved in creating the symposium, I hope that Tom and Ed are still up for helping to run it. The proposal looks good to me, from my point of view please submit it. I would only add one point to the list of items that people could contribute content for: - enable Eclipse technology to be used on the web Jochen Am 09.09.2008 22:37 Uhr schrieb "Boris Bokowski" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jochen Krause wrote on 08/12/2008 04:34:42 AM: >> > Tom, Ed, >> > >> > Thats great. Can we have a call later this week to discuss how to move >> > ahead? Thursday / Friday would be possible for me. >> > >> > Jochen > > Not sure if I missed anything but did you end up having this call? > > I checked the system but could not find a submission for the symposium > that I thought we'd like to have at ESE. I believe it is important > that we use the opportunity to increase participation in e4. To that end, > I would like to offer my help in organizing the symposium. > > How about I enter a submission tomorrow (Wednesday), if still possible, > into the system, with the following abstract (feedback welcome!). > > Boris > > e4 Symposium > > DESCRIPTION > > The Eclipse platform was originally targeted at building an extensible > IDE component framework. It has since evolved into many different areas, > enabling whole new categories of scenarios and domains. As the software > landscape changes, so must the Eclipse platform in order to remain > relevant and vibrant. The trend lines point to web technologies, new > user interface metaphors, and distributed infrastructure. Now is the > time to rethink elements of the platform so that Eclipse may remain at > the forefront of application development. > > We have started to work towards building Eclipse's next generation > platform for pervasive, component-based applications and tools, > called "e4". A summit in May 2008 in Ottawa, Canada, kicked off the > effort that strives to ensure the broadest possible community > participation. > > The purpose of the e4 Symposium is to assess the progress we have made > since May, in terms of thinking, plans, and actual running code, to > discuss the work areas that are part of the e4 effort, and to invite > new contributors. > > Please attend this symposium if you would like to work together on > > - simplifying the Eclipse programming model, making it easier to write > plug-ins > - more flexible, sophisticated UI styling > - enabling a broader array of applications to be built from Eclipse > > and potentially other directions as reflected by those who are actively > participating in the effort. > > For more details about e4, please see: http://wiki.eclipse.org/e4 > > > PARTICIPATION > > In order to participate in this symposium, please submit a position > paper (minimum two pages, maximum ten pages) that raises an issue, > describes a problem or sketches a solution that should be discussed at > the symposium. Submissions should be licensed under the EPL. > > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Initial Paper Submission: September 25, 2008 > Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2008 > Symposium: November 18, 2008 > > > ORGANIZERS > > Boris Bokowski, IBM Canada > Jochen Krause, Innoopract GmbH > Tom Schindl, BestSolution.at > Ed Merks, Independent > > _______________________________________________ > eclipse-incubator-e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse-incubator-e4-dev
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