[Foss4g2009] Draft Press Release announcing abstracts

[Venka]

Selecting less than half of the papers submitted
is a tough job for the organizers and could be
also unpleasant for authors whose submissions
are not selected. Recently, I have also heard
from some authors that number of rejections of
almost 50% of the submission was rather high.
I also feel that several good submission may
end up being rejected.

As in other conferences, I think that there is
no need (or time) to send new call for poster
submission and poster presentations could be
selected form the submission that could not be
accepted for oral presentation for the want of
time slots to accommodate them.

Venka

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I'm not up to speed on Poster sessions. At the moment, I don't think we 
> have the details for the poster session in place.
> We haven't asked people to register for poster sessions, and selected 
> appropriate poster sessions. Are we putting out a call for poster 
> sessions now? What is the timeframe for when people need to put their 
> submissions in? What are the details and costs etc?
> I'm hopeful that any poster session covers expenses, so we need someone 
> to get on top of these details.
> 
> Venka wrote:
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> Perhaps we can add about poster session in the press
>> release. I think the poster can be selected from
>> rank 85 to rank 125
>>
>> "Community participation in the abstract selection was impressive, 
>> with over 150 community members selecting 85 general and 40 poster 
>> track abstracts from the 183 submitted and a further 12 academic 
>> abstracts selected by 52 academic peers."
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Venka
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> I've drafted a press release announcing the abstract selection at:
>>>
>>> We should finalise this by tomorrow (Tuesday) so that we can give 
>>> translators a week to translate it.
>>> Please provide review comments on the text below, or update the wiki 
>>> directly.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21
>>>
>>>
>>>  FOSS4G Abstracts announced + Early Bird registration looming
>>>
>>> Sydney, Australia. 20 July 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org
>>>
>>>
>>>    Abstracts Announced
>>>
>>> A comprehensive list of presentations has been announced for the 
>>> international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 
>>> conference, in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009.
>>>
>>> Abstracts presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, 
>>> Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals include the latest geospatial 
>>> applications, standards, government programs, business processes and 
>>> case studies.
>>>
>>> Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd 
>>> sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, 
>>> integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, 
>>> Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and 
>>> Proprietary Software and more.
>>>
>>> For the full list of quality abstracts, view: 
>>> http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/
>>>
>>> Community participation in the abstract selection was impressive, 
>>> with over 150 community members selected 85 general track abstracts 
>>> from the 183 submitted and a further 12 academic abstracts selected 
>>> by 52 academic peers.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Early Bird Registration
>>>
>>> After getting inspired from the breadth of abstracts, be sure to 
>>> register for the FOSS4G conference. Early Bird registration closes in 
>>> less than two weeks, on 31 July, 2009. 
>>> http://2009.foss4g.org/registration/
>>>
>>>
>>>    Upcoming milestones
>>>
>>>    * 31 Jul 2009, *Early bird registration deadline*
>>>    * 14 Sep 2009, *Completed program available on the wiki*
>>>    * 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
>>>    * 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
>>>    * 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint
>>>
>>>
>>>    [edit
>>>    
>>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21&action=edit&section=5>] 
>>>
>>>    Media Sponsors
>>>
>>>    * Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
>>>    * Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
>>>    * Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
>>>    * Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
>>>    * GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
>>>    * Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising 
>>> Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: 
>>> http://2009.foss4g.org/contacts/
>>>
>>> or contact:
>>>
>>> Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and 
>>> Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft
>>>
>>> tel  +61-2-8570-5050
>>>
>>> c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m
>>>
>>>
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