Jim, (01)
We are expecting quite a turn out at your upcoming talk, which is
only days away now. I am writing to make sure we are in sync on
various session details. (02)
Ref. your session page at the Ontolog wiki:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11 (03)
1. do you have slides (even a few) for your opening statements.
If you do, please email them to me. I can upload them and link
them to the page. We will then bring them up on the vnc (shared
screen) server during the session, with you (or I, if you want me
to) running them. (04)
2. if you have URL's and other resources that you will be likely
be referring to during the session, please post them to the wiki
prior to the session (under:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11#nidDFL). (05)
3. Mark will be introducing you at the beginning of the session
(he does have a later conflict, I heard, and may therefore have
to check out early.) (06)
Let me know if there is any further question. Feel free to email
or call me (650-578-9998) any time. (07)
I look forward to talking to you on the 11th. (08)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (09)
Peter Yim wrote Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:24:06 -0700:
> Jim,
>
> Marvelous idea! Look forward to that.
>
> As soon as I get items (a) thru (d) from you, I will be set up the
> session page on our wiki, and start circulating this among the
> community. I'm sure people will be excited about the session.
>
> Thanks & regards. =ppy
> -- (010)
> Jim Hendler wrote Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:09:02 -0400:
>
>> Peter - first let me confirm date and time are fine - I'll look
>> forward to it.
>>
>> Second, a number of your members have seen my talks at egov and Swans,
>> or will attend JCIS or XML 2005 where I'll be speaking, and also I
>> think there are some questions of interest to people in your community
>> (What to do with FEA DRM, the role of upper ontologies, etc.) that I
>> am often asked, so it seems like my giving a 45 min "talk" at the
>> beginning might not be the best use of time -- how about if I prepared
>> just some simple opening statements, and we made it primarily a Q/A
>> session (Sort of like a panel, but with only one panelist :-)) - my
>> instinct people would get more out of this, and it might draw more
>> people to an August meeting... If that works, we could bill this as
>> something like "Semantic Web Q & A" and I'll write an "abstract" to fit
>> what do you think?
>> JH (011)
>> At 21:32 -0700 6/20/05, Peter P. Yim wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Professor Hendler,
>>>
>>> Further to your confirmation with Professor Mark Musen, I would like
>>> to thank you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our
>>> invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday August 11, 2005,
>>> on a relevant topics you feel appropriate for our membership. I am
>>> writing to provide further details and some administrivia on the event.
>>>
>>> This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event. The session will
>>> start with about 10~15 minutes for introductions and for getting
>>> everyone settled in. Your virtual presentation of approximately 45
>>> minutes will follow. After that, there will be an open discussion for
>>> about 30 minutes (or more, if necessary, and as time permits). This
>>> will be over a phone conference, augmented by online presentation
>>> material. The time of the session will be scheduled for 10:30am to
>>> 12:00pm (quite possibly extending to 12:30pm) Pacific Daylight Time.
>>>
>>> The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and
>>> development of domain ontologies, is trying to advance the adoption
>>> and application of ontological engineering approaches and semantic
>>> technologies (see our charter at:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB ), and is
>>> facilitating their move into the mainstream standards. As we are
>>> trying to get our community to get more familiar with OWL and other
>>> related W3C standards, your talking to our group and affording us a
>>> chance to have an open dialog with you along those lines will be most
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your
>>> earliest convenience (hopefully on/before July 11):
>>>
>>> (a) a short biographic sketch of yourself. In addition, if you can
>>> provide (links to) slightly more extended bio/intro of you and your
>>> work, that would be even better. It would be fine if you just supply
>>> the URL's to the material (if something appropriate is already
>>> available online.) Feel free to update your namesake page on the
>>> Ontolog wiki too (at:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JimHendler)
>>>
>>> (b) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg or
>>> gif format),
>>>
>>> (c) the title of your talk, and
>>>
>>> (d) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a
>>> couple of paragraphs will do).
>>>
>>> Once I get the above, I will start circulating the information among
>>> the community, so that people could mark their calendars and plan to
>>> attend.
>>>
>>> Closer to the time (say, by August 2, although this is not a hard
>>> deadline), please send me:
>>>
>>> (e) your presentation material* (in powerpoint, pdf, sxi, html, jpg,
>>> png or some common electronic format) so that I can post it online
>>> for access during the session.
>>>
>>> During the talk, you will be in control of a shared screen server (a
>>> VNC server) that will allow you to run your presentation slides, a
>>> web browser or even other applications (if you do need to run other
>>> applications, please provide me with more details because we may need
>>> some prior coordination to make it happen). The display screen from
>>> the VNC server will be shared by all virtual attendees during the event.
>>>
>>> (f) After I receive your presentation material, we will schedule a
>>> phone session so that I can walk you through the presentation
>>> controls and some of the relevant nuances that our virtual speaker(s)
>>> need to be aware of. We need to do this while you are at the venue
>>> when you plan to be presenting from (e.g. your office, your home, ...
>>> etc.). You are also invited to take a look at the hints we have for
>>> sessions like this at:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
>>>
>>> For your reference, please feel free to check out the wiki pages of
>>> similar recent presentations, like the ones given by Steve Ray of
>>> NIST (see:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_02_12),
>>> or the one by Chris Welty on OntoClean (see:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_11_18).
>>> They should provide some clue as to the format of our monthly invited
>>> speaker events. However, do feel free to conduct your presentation
>>> any way you feel like (let me know, though, if you expect it to be
>>> quite different, so that I can work on providing the support you
>>> need.) We will be creating a wiki page for your session after we have
>>> received the above ((a) thru (d) input from you), at which point, you
>>> are encouraged to post additional relevant resources (papers, links,
>>> references, ... etc.) to support your presentation.
>>>
>>> Additionally, we have been recording our presentation sessions and
>>> make the archived audio file available online, along with the
>>> presentation material. May I, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum, request
>>> your permission to do so. Please refer to our IPR policy at:
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 that will
>>> be applicable. I will assume that is acceptable to you unless I hear
>>> from you otherwise.
>>>
>>> Once again, thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to having
>>> a dialog with our community. I shall look forward to the event, and
>>> to to your continued contribution to Ontolog in the future. Feel free
>>> to contact the undersigned if there is any question.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> =PPY
>>>
>>> Peter P. Yim
>>> [ontolog-forum], co-convener
>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net
>>> Phone: (650) 578-9998
>>>
>>> P.S. *Please note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other
>>> presentation material), try to avoid using any animation or
>>> transitions, as they do not work very well over the real-time
>>> shared-screen platform, which we employ to allow the audience to be
>>> in sync with you on your slide presentation. -ppy
>>> --
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