On 2 Dec 2005, at 10:46, Arthur Lemmens wrote:
Barry Wilkes wrote:
I think that the workshop format is a unique opportunity to get feedback on ones ideas from a group with a wide range of experience.
I agree with Barry here. The workshop's "unique selling point" is the breakout group format. If you want to hear talks about Lisp or just have a chat with other Lispers, you can go to the ILC or the ECLM. But the breakout group format was a nice intermediate between the "just sit and listen" character of a typical presentation and the "anything goes" character of an informal chat.
Thanks a lot to everyone for their opinions so far. I think I will go for it. BTW, I don't think that the breakout group format should necessarily be a unique selling point of the ECOOP workshop. It could also make sense to do something like that at other events, like the ECM or the ILC. I have always thought that it's a shame that when some of the brightest minds meet together that they don't actually use the opportunity to also be productive together. But that's maybe just me... Thanks again, Pascal -- Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc@p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium