EclipseCon is quickly approaching, I know this because I’m running out of dates to schedule my Mylyn “Do EclipseCon Prep” task.  But even with all the work remaining, I’m very excited about this years program.   I have been going over the schedule, looking for talks and tutorials I really want to attend.  Here is where you are likely to find me.

On Sunday evening you will find me at the tweetup / blogger BoF.  This traditionally takes place in the bar and is always one of the highlights of EclipseCon.

On Monday morning, I’m torn between the RAP Tutorial and John Arthorne’s “Deep Dive into the Platform Resource Model“.  In the afternoon, “Distributed OSGi — The ECF Way” looks awesome, however, I will be helping to deliver the p2 tutorial at that time.

On Tuesday, after breakfast and the keynote, I will be attending the main stage “Runtime (r)evolution at Eclipse“.  After this, I will likely be running around between a bunch of talks. In particular, I am really excited about “OSGi Short Takes“, “e4 Project in Review“, “e4 Under the Covers“, “I Declare!“, “e4 UI in Practice” and “EMF Repository Workflows”

On Wednesday morning I will likely be hiding as a I prepare my talk on Zest which is happening during the “UI Component Showcase“. This likely means I can’t attend “OSGi for Eclipse Devleopers” , another promising session.  ”PDE State of the Union” and “Higher-level UI Programming” both really interest me, and sadly I will be forced to choose. The rest of the afternoon will likely consist of me bouncing between “Web to Desktop, desktop to web“, “The Modeled UI in Eclipse e4“, “What’s new in p2“, and of course “The Unbearable Stupidity of Modeling“.

On Thursday, Kevin and Tim’s keynote, “Darwin Among the IDEs“, is one of the most anticipated in my book.  Both of these gentlemen have an incredible resume when it comes to IDEs.  After this, I will likely head to the “Ask the AC (Panel)“, where I’m sure these fine men will be pressed on a number of issues related to Eclipse Architecture, project leadership and open source in general.  Before heading to the airport, I will try to catch a few more talks. In particular I will try to attend “Bringing GEF to the Web“, “Text 2 Models and Back Again” and the Martin’s talk on Teno and EclipseLink.

WOW!    Include BoFs, receptions and the early morning exercise, and this is going to be one packed week.  Looking over my schedule, I seemto gravatate towards talks on e4, modeling, UI development and OSGi.

What about you, what are you intersted in?  And if you haven’t registered for EclipseCon, why not? You can save $200 if you register before March 20th.

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• Collaboration at EclipseCon
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• EclipseCon Europe — Talks On-line
• EclipseCon 2010 – Runtime Selections

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