Why Your JavaOne Submission Was Rejected

JavaOne submission acceptance letters - and rejection letters - starting going out last night. This year, I was on the review committee for one of the tracks, so I got to see the proposals as well as the reasons for rejecting many of them. I thought I'd write these up, both to explain to the many submitters what might have gone wrong, as well as to give some tips for how to improve your chances next year. I'll probably link back to this post around the time submissions for JavaOne 2009 open up later this year. Not Enough Details! There were a number of submissions that sounded interesting, but didn't include enough details for us to judge whether there is enough technical meat behind the promises. If you're promising insights or "lessons learned", tell us what those lessons are, such that we can judge whether your presentation will be worthwhile (and in particular, whether to choose your submission over the handful of other similar submissions in the same topic area). Wrong category! I was on the Tools and Languages track. You wouldn't believe how many submissions to our track were not related to tools and languages. Framework, Practices, Process or Methodology: If any of these words are in your title, make sure you're really explaining how this is going to be tool related or language related. So why can't we just reassign them to the right track? Well, each committee works independently, and if we were to suddenly ha...

Date: February, 01 2008
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/why_your_javaone_submission_was

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