[Foss4g2009] Website Submissions

[mapbutcher]

I got the confirmation email Shoaib - so its looking ok - I assume you
created an account from scratch?
Was there any points in the process that would potentially confuse?
Simon


2009/1/18 Shoaib Burq <saburq at gmail.com>

> Neat! I just made a test proposal submission. It was very smooth and
> is looking good!
>
>
> 2009/1/18 mapbutcher <mapbutcher at mapbutcher.com>:
> > Folks,
> > I have made a series of changes to the current site which can be viewed
> > here:
> > http://www.mapbutcher.com/foss4g2009/
> >
> > Note there is a new left hand menu option: Programme with the following
> sub
> > menu items:
> >
> > Conference Schedule
> > Speakers
> > Presentations
> > Workshops
> > Tutorials
> > Posters
> > CCIP
> > Events & Activities
> > Submission Guidelines
> >
> > I have added what content I can at this stage - the main focus has been
> > around the Submission Guidelines and Workshop pages. The Submission
> > Guidelines page contains guidance and links to our OCS instance which I
> have
> > set up. I can't make the scheduled meeting this week because of
> > work commitments - perhaps the following can be added to the agenda?
> >
> > Do we want to provide Author Guidelines?
> > Time can you supply some blurb for the speaker page?
> > Could someone provide a description of the tutorial format so we can add
> > this to the tutorial page?
> > When should we open call for tutorial submissions?
> > Anybody want to add content for the poster page - Jody do you have
> > experience from previous years?
> > When should we open call for poster submissions - what is the format of
> the
> > submission?
> > Cameron are you happy with the CCIP page - any more input?
> > Events and activities - if we're happy with Shelbourne shall we add this
> as
> > the 'welcome reception drinks'?
> > Submission Acknowledgement email - Cameron within OCS we can configure
> the
> > submission acknowledgement email - could you scratch something together?
> > Presentation Themes - are we going to have a set of suggested themes?
> >
> > Can all OC members please create an account in OCS if they do not already
> > have one - and I will add them into the organising team page within the
> OCS
> > instance + I'd like us to test the submission process to iron out issues
> > before 2nd Feb.
> >
> > In relation to workshops:
> > Mark wrote on the 13th Jan:
> > "Scanning through the docs, I don't see any plan as to how we will be
> > accepting submissions.  I would expect setting up a word-doc or pdf
> template
> > and getting people to just email them in is fine, there shouldn't be an
> > unwieldy volume.  Unfortunately, since the workshop pages of previous
> > conferences seem to get retasked with descriptions of the selected
> > workshops, I don't actually have previous instructions or templates.  Can
> > anybody direct me to some?"
> > Are you happy for us to push the submissions through OCS - can you give
> it a
> > whirl - do we need to make changes etc?
> > Mark - If you create an OCS account I'll add you as 'track director' for
> the
> > workshops
> > Mark - should we add in a blurb about the workshop submissions into the
> > track policy on the OCS
> > instance?:
> http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g2009/sydney/schedConf/trackPolicies
> > Simon
> >
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