[OSDC Israel] OSDC Israel 2008 - Call for Organizers

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On 6/8/07, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> 4 tracks dedicated to Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby sound too much like Divide
> and Conquer for me. One of the reasons for OSDC is for developers to learn
> from each other and that includes from developers of other languages. I
> suggest more general language-agnostic tracks.
>
You might be right with respect to the final result: perhaps more
mixing of will result in a better conference.  Organization-wise,
however, divide-and-conquer makes perfect sense: different content
managers know different language communities.

I do think we want to encourage cross-language lectures.  With
divide-and-conquer these might fall between the chairs.  At the very
least the call for papers should make it clear that we accept lectures
focused on other languages and cross-language programming.

> Last year, my only presentation was scheduled at the Python room and at the
> second half of a different presentation. As a result, I gave a Perl-focused
> presentation to the Pythoneers.
>
That's a bug in the track scheduling then.  It doesn't necessarily
make the track definitions wrong.

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