Stefano, Claudio,
Thank you very much for taking this on! I fully agree that discussing
everything from scratch would take too much time. Please proceed and
the people on this mailing list can give feedback on your proposals.
Best
Fabian (01)
On Dec 28, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Stefano Borgo wrote: (02)
> Dear all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers
> -Stefano and Claudio
>
>
> On 23 Dec 2011, at 04:48, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:
>
>> 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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