Andrew, Michael, All,
As to the dates I agree with Michael: why not have the siubmission dead-line in mid-August. The evaluation process could be done in 3 weeks, if there are enough reviewers (=members of the programm committee)
5 minutes talks makes sense to me, if it is a poster submission and if there is a poster slam slot in the conference, before a break, wher posters then can be discussed with the poster authors.
Proceedings papers: nice idea, but may be we can have the language a bit more open: such as If you submit a full paper (...), it will be part of the official proceedings. BTW: do you plan a print publication? Otherwise mixing presenations, abstracts and full papers on the web would'nt hurt.
One more thing: If there is a tutorial day, we might also want to ask for tutorial submissions, or do final plans on this already exist?
And one last thing: Isn't usually the programm committee specified in the Call for papers?
I would recommend to first send out a save the day message, then create the programm committe and then send out the call for papers.
Cheers,
Peter
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:00:36 +0100, Michael Ströder michael@stroeder.com wrote:
Andrew,
Andrew Findlay wrote:
Here is the first draft of the call for papers.
thanks for working on this so quick. I agree with most of it.
Deadlines & Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 6th September 2015 Author Notification: 28th September 2015
Isn't that a bit late? The final program is *the* premise for people booking the event. We have to do some PR work which takes time. And employees probably have to ask their boss for traveling budget etc.
=> IMO the program should be on-line at *least* 2,5 months before the event.
Main presentations should last about 45 minutes including discussion; we will also provide smaller slots of 15 minutes and 5 minutes for lightning talks.
I'm not sure whether 5 min talks makes sense. IMHO they don't.
For the conference proceedings we expect you to submit a paper (not
just
slides, please)
We never demanded that yet. Some people might be discouraged by having
the
extra work.
Ciao, Michael.