Jorge,<div><br></div><div>See comments inline:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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1) We should put together the academic presentations. It's more easy for<br>
attendees to decide in advance where they wanna go.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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2) We should accept only good papers, even if they are only a few. It's<br>
a investment in quality, that will help us to raise the EIC (Estimated<br>
Impact of Conference). But I would say that we could accept about 12 to<br>
15 papers, maximum.<br>
<br>
3) It's no my business, but I might suggest just 20 min. to each<br>
academic presentation, instead of the 30 min. scheduled. Authors should<br>
really focus on what is really important, instead of telling all the<br>
story from the beginning till the end.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>With 20 minutes each this fits in well with the current schedule sessions. I have made a suggestion that the academic track runs all day on Thursday 22nd in Parkside G04. Each session runs for 1hr and 30 minutes - so in the academic track you'd have 4 presentations per session with a 10 minute turn around allowance.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og">http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og</a></span><br>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div>See the sheet for the 22nd. Is this room a suitable size. More information on the room can be found here:</div><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=128">http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=128</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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4) Joining items 2) and 3), tell us how many papers we should accept, to<br>
keep the schedule consistent, in your opinion. If you work on the<br>
google's schedule spreadsheet, we would see immediately your<br>
suggestions.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>12 presentations would be required if the above schedule is suitable</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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5) We should update FOSS4G website to reflect today's announcement.<br>
Please feel free to request more information to update the website. We<br>
can help you with the contents.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed, I've cc'd Shoaib in. I think a new dedicated page under the programme heading would be good - if you could provide the content to Shoaib he can arrange the site update. I also think we need to update the current presentation page and submission guide page to take into account the academic track</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Jorge<br>
<br>
Seg, 2009-05-25 às 20:46 +1000, mapbutcher escreveu:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Jorge,<br>
><br>
><br>
> With regard to the allocation of presentation slots in the<br>
> schedule. Would you like the presentations to be ran consecutively in<br>
> a single room where possible?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
><br>
><br>
> Simon<br>
><br>
><br>
> 2009/5/22 Jorge Gustavo Rocha <<a href="mailto:jgr@di.uminho.pt">jgr@di.uminho.pt</a>><br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Thanks Paul. I'm interested to go forward [at full speed,<br>
> since we don't<br>
> have much time]. More people is necessary, so Thierry's offer<br>
> is very<br>
> welcome.<br>
><br>
> I think the next steps should be:<br>
><br>
> 0) Write down the call for [scientific/research] papers, for<br>
> the<br>
> academic track (we can start with last year call)<br>
><br>
> 1) Update FOSS4G 2009 web site, to announce the peer reviewed<br>
> academic<br>
> track, pointing to call for papers<br>
> - Deadline for this track should be around July 31th;<br>
> - Specific submission guidelines should be added to<br>
> this track<br>
> - The conference scheduled should be updated to have 3<br>
> or 4 sessions<br>
> with academic presentations (taking about 12 to 16 slots of<br>
> the 94<br>
> available ones)<br>
><br>
> 1.1) Cameron could prepare a press release to announce the<br>
> call, and to<br>
> get it posted to every mailing list<br>
><br>
> 2) Create a representative scientific committee (this can<br>
> start right<br>
> now; some other members can be added later), by:<br>
> - Inviting the members that previously act as<br>
> scientific<br>
> committee/reviewers<br>
> - Inviting people from the Spanish chapter, that can do<br>
> this job next<br>
> year (maybe Lluís Vicens, from SITGA, Miguel R. Luaces, from<br>
> Coruña<br>
> Univ., Victor Olaya, from Extremadura Univ.)<br>
> - Inviting Charlie Schweik, and someone else from the<br>
> OSGeo-Edu<br>
> - Inviting people from Australia<br>
> - Inviting other known OSGeo chapter members, related<br>
> to academic<br>
> duties and research<br>
> - Have some places for volunteers<br>
> With 20 members on the scientific committee, if each can read<br>
> 10 papers,<br>
> we can have 200 readings. So, if each paper is read by 3<br>
> reviewers, we<br>
> can receive 60-70 papers for reviewing.<br>
><br>
> 3) Making all possible contacts with reputed journals/books,<br>
> to start a<br>
> reference publication related to OSGeo/FOSS4G. Thierry<br>
> suggestion make<br>
> sense; we can work with other institutions like ICA and alike<br>
> to have<br>
> the best possible printed publication, if we don't have enough<br>
> high<br>
> quality papers to create our own volume.<br>
><br>
> 4) Install and configure an open source platform to handle the<br>
> blind<br>
> reviewing process (that's easy; OpenConf can be used for the<br>
> job). The<br>
> reviewing process will take place in August.<br>
><br>
> Right now, we need some feedback from Cameron and others to<br>
> know the<br>
> impact of this academic track in the current schedule. Is the<br>
> July 31th<br>
> deadline ok? 12 to 16 papers is reasonable?<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
><br>
> Jorge<br>
> --<br>
> jorge gustavo rocha<br>
> departamento de informática<br>
> universidade do minho<br>
> 4710-057 braga<br>
> portugal<br>
> N 41º33'44,5" W 8º23'40,5"<br>
> tel +351 253604470 fax +351 253604471 cel +351 927210173<br>
><br>
><br>
> Qui, 2009-05-21 às 15:09 -0400, Thierry Badard escreveu:<br>
> > Paul Ramsey a écrit :<br>
> > > More than anything else, the Sydney team needs someone<br>
> with an<br>
> > > academic background to step up and take on the academic<br>
> track:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > - organizing the peer review panel<br>
> > > - selecting the publication mechanism<br>
> > > - selecting the papers for the academic track<br>
> > ><br>
> > > In 2007 Tyler and members of the education committee did<br>
> that for me,<br>
> > > which was invaluable. In 2008, a member of the LOC was<br>
> sufficiently<br>
> > > academic to do it. For 2009, a volunteer from the academic<br>
> community<br>
> > > is needed. Us ordinary folk don't understand what makes a<br>
> good process<br>
> > > for this stuff, we need someone who does. Could that<br>
> person be you,<br>
> > > Jorge?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > P<br>
> ><br>
> > Hi all,<br>
> ><br>
> > If Jorge is interested in, I could take it in charge with<br>
> him. I have<br>
> > already been involved in lot of program or scientific<br>
> committees and I<br>
> > have also organised different scientific tracks, workshops<br>
> or events. In<br>
> > addition, as a co-chair of ICA WG on open source geospatial<br>
> technologies<br>
> > (see <a href="http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca" target="_blank">http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca</a>), I will be very<br>
> happy to<br>
> > engage a first effective collaboration between ICA and OSGeo<br>
> around an<br>
> > academic/scientific track with publication of selected<br>
> papers as an<br>
> > edited book.<br>
> ><br>
> > Cheers,<br>
> ><br>
> > Th.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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</div></div>--<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">jorge gustavo rocha<br>
departamento de informática<br>
universidade do minho<br>
4710-057 braga<br>
portugal<br>
N 41º33'44,5" W 8º23'40,5"<br>
tel +351 253604470 fax +351 253604471 cel +351 927210173<br>
<br>
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