[Foss4g2009] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Re:FOSS4G Conference Presentations
and an academictrack
mapbutcher
mapbutcher at mapbutcher.com
Mon May 25 16:19:44 EDT 2009
Jorge,
See comments inline:
>
>
> 1) We should put together the academic presentations. It's more easy for
> attendees to decide in advance where they wanna go.
OK
>
>
> 2) We should accept only good papers, even if they are only a few. It's
> a investment in quality, that will help us to raise the EIC (Estimated
> Impact of Conference). But I would say that we could accept about 12 to
> 15 papers, maximum.
>
> 3) It's no my business, but I might suggest just 20 min. to each
> academic presentation, instead of the 30 min. scheduled. Authors should
> really focus on what is really important, instead of telling all the
> story from the beginning till the end.
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.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og
See the sheet for the 22nd. Is this room a suitable size. More information
on the room can be found here:
http://www.scec.com.au/rooms/fact_sheet.cfm?ObjectID=128
>
>
> 4) Joining items 2) and 3), tell us how many papers we should accept, to
> keep the schedule consistent, in your opinion. If you work on the
> google's schedule spreadsheet, we would see immediately your
> suggestions.
12 presentations would be required if the above schedule is suitable
>
>
> 5) We should update FOSS4G website to reflect today's announcement.
> Please feel free to request more information to update the website. We
> can help you with the contents.
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
Cheers
Simon
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorge
>
> Seg, 2009-05-25 às 20:46 +1000, mapbutcher escreveu:
> > Jorge,
> >
> >
> > With regard to the allocation of presentation slots in the
> > schedule. Would you like the presentations to be ran consecutively in
> > a single room where possible?
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > 2009/5/22 Jorge Gustavo Rocha <jgr at di.uminho.pt>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks Paul. I'm interested to go forward [at full speed,
> > since we don't
> > have much time]. More people is necessary, so Thierry's offer
> > is very
> > welcome.
> >
> > I think the next steps should be:
> >
> > 0) Write down the call for [scientific/research] papers, for
> > the
> > academic track (we can start with last year call)
> >
> > 1) Update FOSS4G 2009 web site, to announce the peer reviewed
> > academic
> > track, pointing to call for papers
> > - Deadline for this track should be around July 31th;
> > - Specific submission guidelines should be added to
> > this track
> > - The conference scheduled should be updated to have 3
> > or 4 sessions
> > with academic presentations (taking about 12 to 16 slots of
> > the 94
> > available ones)
> >
> > 1.1) Cameron could prepare a press release to announce the
> > call, and to
> > get it posted to every mailing list
> >
> > 2) Create a representative scientific committee (this can
> > start right
> > now; some other members can be added later), by:
> > - Inviting the members that previously act as
> > scientific
> > committee/reviewers
> > - Inviting people from the Spanish chapter, that can do
> > this job next
> > year (maybe Lluís Vicens, from SITGA, Miguel R. Luaces, from
> > Coruña
> > Univ., Victor Olaya, from Extremadura Univ.)
> > - Inviting Charlie Schweik, and someone else from the
> > OSGeo-Edu
> > - Inviting people from Australia
> > - Inviting other known OSGeo chapter members, related
> > to academic
> > duties and research
> > - Have some places for volunteers
> > With 20 members on the scientific committee, if each can read
> > 10 papers,
> > we can have 200 readings. So, if each paper is read by 3
> > reviewers, we
> > can receive 60-70 papers for reviewing.
> >
> > 3) Making all possible contacts with reputed journals/books,
> > to start a
> > reference publication related to OSGeo/FOSS4G. Thierry
> > suggestion make
> > sense; we can work with other institutions like ICA and alike
> > to have
> > the best possible printed publication, if we don't have enough
> > high
> > quality papers to create our own volume.
> >
> > 4) Install and configure an open source platform to handle the
> > blind
> > reviewing process (that's easy; OpenConf can be used for the
> > job). The
> > reviewing process will take place in August.
> >
> > Right now, we need some feedback from Cameron and others to
> > know the
> > impact of this academic track in the current schedule. Is the
> > July 31th
> > deadline ok? 12 to 16 papers is reasonable?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jorge
> > --
> > jorge gustavo rocha
> > departamento de informática
> > universidade do minho
> > 4710-057 braga
> > portugal
> > N 41º33'44,5" W 8º23'40,5"
> > tel +351 253604470 fax +351 253604471 cel +351 927210173
> >
> >
> > Qui, 2009-05-21 às 15:09 -0400, Thierry Badard escreveu:
> > > Paul Ramsey a écrit :
> > > > More than anything else, the Sydney team needs someone
> > with an
> > > > academic background to step up and take on the academic
> > track:
> > > >
> > > > - organizing the peer review panel
> > > > - selecting the publication mechanism
> > > > - selecting the papers for the academic track
> > > >
> > > > In 2007 Tyler and members of the education committee did
> > that for me,
> > > > which was invaluable. In 2008, a member of the LOC was
> > sufficiently
> > > > academic to do it. For 2009, a volunteer from the academic
> > community
> > > > is needed. Us ordinary folk don't understand what makes a
> > good process
> > > > for this stuff, we need someone who does. Could that
> > person be you,
> > > > Jorge?
> > > >
> > > > P
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > If Jorge is interested in, I could take it in charge with
> > him. I have
> > > already been involved in lot of program or scientific
> > committees and I
> > > have also organised different scientific tracks, workshops
> > or events. In
> > > addition, as a co-chair of ICA WG on open source geospatial
> > technologies
> > > (see http://ica-opensource.scg.ulaval.ca), I will be very
> > happy to
> > > engage a first effective collaboration between ICA and OSGeo
> > around an
> > > academic/scientific track with publication of selected
> > papers as an
> > > edited book.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Th.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> --
> jorge gustavo rocha
> departamento de informática
> universidade do minho
> 4710-057 braga
> portugal
> N 41º33'44,5" W 8º23'40,5"
> tel +351 253604470 fax +351 253604471 cel +351 927210173
>
>
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