EclipseCon scheduled for March 20-23, 2006 has adopted an open and transparent call for participation policy.

All submissions are being handled via a modified Bugzilla system known as Eclipsezilla.

"Anyone in the community (including you) is welcome to review the submissions, ask for more information, provide comments and critiques, and even vote on which ones you'd like to see at the conference - just as anyone in (the) community is invited and encouraged to do for Eclipse bugs and features via Bugzilla."

It's going to be interesting to watch this process work.