Dear all, (01)
Claudio and I discussed a bit the overall situation. We concluded that things
do not look good at all.
Several decisions need to be taken quickly and we do not have experience about
this kind of events. (02)
Said that, we are available to take charge of the organization, by this we
include both logistics and content (since the Ed. Committee is asking for
volunteers on both these aspects).
More precisely, we are willing to work out a first (rough) proposal about the
local organization, the budget and the school format with suggestions about
courses/lecturers (at least to some extent).
The Ed. Committee should then meet to discuss the proposal and suggest
adjustments/alternatives.
Discussing everything together from scratch would be ideal but we are afraid it
would take too much time... (03)
If the Ed. Committee agrees on the two of us taking up these roles and on this
way to proceed, then Claudio and I will start working on it. (04)
Cheers
-Stefano and Claudio (05)
On 23 Dec 2011, at 04:48, Obrst, Leo J. wrote: (06)
> Thanks, Fabian and Antony. You've made your circumstances clear, and we
>understand your desire but lack of time to help organize the Summer School.
>
> To quickly resolve this issues, I think we should try to have a joint
>conversation in email, and possibly a telecon soon with Stefano and Claudio
>Masolo, the Trento local arrangements folks, and the Education Committee
>(Fabian, Antony, Werner, Robert, Michael, me) and any interested other EC
>members to hash out what is required to organize and support the IAOA Summer
>School 2012, and who can do it. We truly do need to publicize the Summer
>School very soon, if we are going to have one in 2012.
>
> Perhaps Stefano and Claudio are willing to take on the entire organization of
>the Summer School, i.e., act as both "conference"/general chairs and local
>arrangement chairs, much as Werner did this past year (with Vespucci
>organizational support). Stefano and Claudio, what are your thoughts about
>this?
>
> I can pledge my auxiliary support to assist as much as possible, but as the
>others, I have very limited time to devote to this. In addition, I cannot be
>physically present at the Summer School, unfortunately. And really, the
>general chairs of the Summer School should be physically present.
>
> All, please let us know your thoughts about these issues.
>
> Also, if we cannot resolve these issues in email, please suggest possible
>candidate days/times for a joint telecon (probably via Skype) soon, next week
>if possible, at which we might resolve these issues.
>
> Thanks much,
> Leo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fabian Neuhaus
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:34 PM
> To: IAOA Education Committee
> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento: first
>considerations
>
> All,
> I think it boils down to the question that I asked at the end of my last
>email:
>> Unfortunately, neither Antony nor I will have the necessary time to take on
>the leadership.So the question is whether either of you would be willing to do
>so, or know somebody who would be interested.
>
> I did not quite get the reaction to my last email that I was hoping for. So
>let me again encourage all of you: Please consider volunteering. If you can't,
>contact people who you think might want to volunteer. If we don't find
>somebody, I don't think we should go forward.
>
> Best wishes (and happy Hanukkah)
> Fabian
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Galton, Antony wrote:
>
>> Leo,
>>
>> I think the main priority is to determine who is going to take the overall
>lead on this. As Fabian reiterated in his last email, neither he nor I are
>going to be in a position to take this on. I can't speak for Fabian, but I
>have a very busy teaching term next term and also have a substantial load as
>Director of Education for Maths and Computer Science at Exeter, on top of
>which there are several papers I want to write - including two which I am
>already committed to, with firm deadlines ... I don't think I would be in a
>position to take the lead on the Summer School, even with plenty of support
>from the local organisers etc. I would be happy to have some involvement with
>the process, it's just that I need to be able to bow out when the pressure of
>all this other work dictates.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Antony
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
>> Sent: 18 December 2011 23:51
>> To: IAOA Education Committee; Stefano Borgo
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento: first
>considerations
>>
>> Thanks, Fabian, Antony, and Stefano.
>>
>> The following are some thoughts, suggestions only.
>>
>> I suggest at least some of our next steps are, in priority order:
>>
>> 1) Frame an announcement, which will describe roughly what the Summer School
>will be about, i.e., the broad outlines of topics, tentative structure (as you
>have), proposed registration opening and closing dates, requirements for
>registering (i.e., not administrative, but geared toward which audiences,
>prerequisites if any, etc.), potential for students and other scholars to
>receive grants (if IAOA can provide this: Laure?), and differentiating points
>(i.e., to distinguish the IAOA Summer School in Applied Onotology from say,
>the ontology engineering/Semantic Web summer school, and others (ESSLLI or
>NASSLI 2012), etc. These are just suggestions; do what you think is good.
>>
>> If you are considering a theme, would be good to briefly suggest that now.
>>
>> 2) Designate one or more folks who will be publicity people to get this and
>subsequent announcements out. Which distribution lists should these go to?
>Might be one of you or others.
>>
>> 3) Direct the local arrangements folks in Trento as to what facilities,
>schedule, accommodations, etc., you think you will need. This is a dialog. My
>guess is that the Trento folks (Stefano, Nicola, others) will already know the
>answers to most questions, and will make suggestions. Draw on the entire IAOA
>EC experience to help you.
>>
>> 4) Plan a rough schedule: when should announcements go out (initial, 2nd,
>3rd Call for Partipation/registration; when applications should be received
>[What info?] and whether grant or travel support is needed, etc. What is the
>deadline for applications?
>>
>> 5) Identify tutorial teachers, how do you want them to frame the content,
>and so ask them to provide? If there is a theme, suggest informally how the
>theme could be addressed, etc.
>>
>> 6) Get commitments from the tutorial teachers. Will they teach? Can they
>provide their material by a particular date, in a particular format (for
>printing, electronic forms, etc.)?
>>
>> I'm sure I've missed others. These are just suggestions. However, another
>suggestion is that a first Call For Participation is made very soon, i.e.,
>this month or very early Jan, 2012.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leo
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:iaoa-education-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fabian Neuhaus
>> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:09 AM
>> To: IAOA Education Committee; Stefano Borgo
>> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento: first
>considerations
>>
>>
>> Stefano, thank you very much for helping out with the local organization of
>the summer school. This is great! From my perspective July 16-20 is fine.
>Unfortunately, I personally might not be able to leave the US because of
>immigration issues.
>>
>> All, Antony and I have exchanged ideas over the weekend. One of the things
>we need to do asap is to nail down the content of the summer school. Antony
>and I came up with an outline of a schedule. Following the results of the
>Ontology Summit on Education, we assumed that even a summer school for novices
>should involve a lot of hands on experience. So, we (roughly) split each day
>into a morning session where new content is presented and an afternoon session
>where the knowledge is applied. Since one result of the Summit was that many
>people feel they lack the formal logic background to understand the semantics
>of KR languages, so we dedicated two session on the introduction KR languages.
>We further suggest that the students spend days 3-4 mainly in teams with the
>task of developing some small ontology on some topic to determined by the
>teachers.
>>
>> ________________________________________
>>
>> Outline:
>> July 16th: Morning: (a) What is an ontology? (b) introduction to KR
>> language(s) I (e.g., FOL)
>> Afternoon: students practice the use of the KR language(s) by formalizing
>toy examples
>> July 17th: Morning: Lecture: (a) KR languages II (e.g., OWL) (b)
>> How to go about building an ontology?
>> Afternoon: exercises that involve the building of toy ontologies July 18th:
>Morning: Background information and general directions that the students need
>to create their ontology.
>> If more than one KB language was introduced, then students need to decide
>which language they want to use.
>> Afternoon: Students develop their own ontology (in groups).
>> July 19th: Morning: Group discussion: problems encountered during
>development / lessons learned / teachers might need to provide extra
>information
>> Afternoon: Students continue to develop their own ontology July 20th:
>Morning: Students present their results. Conclusions.
>> Afternoon: Travel.
>> ________________________________________
>>
>> What do you think? Note that Antony and I did not try to go into details,
>because we think that the people who are actually going to make the summer
>school happen will have to change it anyhow to meet their needs.
>>
>> Which brings me to the other point. As you all know, Werner did a great
>job at organizing the summer school this year. (Thank you again,
>> Werner!) Since organizing such an event is a lot of work, he understandably
>does not want to be actively involved this year.
>> Unfortunately, neither Antony nor I will have the necessary time to take on
>the leadership. So the question is whether either of you would be willing to
>do so, or know somebody who would be interested.
>>
>> Best
>> Fabian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Stefano Borgo wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> in Trento we have gathered information about the organization of the
>>> IAOA summer school with a target of about 50 students.
>>> We did not find particular problems and identified the period July
>>> 16-20 as most suitable.
>>>
>>> Here are some options to reach Graz by train traveling on Fri 20 / Sat
>>> 21
>>>
>>> Trento-Graz (about 10 hrs)
>>> Fr, 20.07.12 dep 18:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 07:00 Sa, 21.07.12 dep 08:05
>>> Sa, 21.07.12 arr 18:33 Sa, 21.07.12 dep 11:52 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 21:45
>>> Sa, 21.07.12 dep 12:00 Sa, 21.07.12 arr 22:23
>>>
>>> Pls, let us know if the period is ok and if we should proceed with the
>>> organization.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> -Stefano
>>>
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