I agree with all four points.
Fabian (01)
On Dec 28, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote: (02)
> Additional considerations:
>
> For future Summer Schools, let us think about actually having a Call
> for Proposals for Hosting the IAOA Summer School. We might lean on
> the mechanisms FOIS has evolved, to do this.
>
> Typically, at least in my experience, there is a General Chair, who
> assists in the overall organization, etc. However, this is open for
> discussion.
>
> But let's consider what our options are for the future. This is a
> topic for both the EC and the Education Committee.
>
> For now, however, let us assist Stefano and Claudio as much as we can.
>
> Thanks!
> Leo
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> ] On Behalf Of Obrst, Leo J.
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:36 PM
> To: Stefano Borgo; IAOA Education Committee
> Cc: Claudio Masolo; Nicola Guarino
> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento:
> first considerations
>
> Stefano,
>
> I agree to this. Thanks to you and Claudio for taking this on.
>
> Let's hear from the Education Committee chairs.
>
> Best regards and Happy New Year,
> Leo
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Borgo [mailto:stefano.borgo@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:21 PM
> To: IAOA Education Committee; Obrst, Leo J.
> Cc: Claudio Masolo; Nicola Guarino
> Subject: Re: [iaoa-education] 2012 IAOA Summer School in Trento:
> first considerations
>
> 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-----
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>>> ] 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
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>>> ] 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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