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[ontolog-admin] Ontolog Invited Speaker - Doug Lenat - Thu 2005.11.17

To: Doug Lenat <doug@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:57:34 -0700
Message-id: <435EFEAE.3090401@xxxxxxxx>
Dear Dr. Lenat,    (01)


Further to your confirmation with Kurt Conrad, I would like to 
thank you again, on behalf of the community, for accepting our 
invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, November 
17, 2005. Please feel free to select a relevant topic which you 
feel is appropriate for our membership. I am writing here, to 
provide further details and some administrivia on the event.    (02)

This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event, scheduled for 
10:30am~12:30pm Pacific Time / 1:30~3:30pm Eastern Time / 
18:30~20:30 UTC. The session will start with about 10~15 minutes 
for self-introduction by participants and for getting everyone 
settled in. Your virtual presentation (of approximately 45~60 
minutes) will then follow. After which, there will be an open 
discussion for about 30~45 minutes.  This will be over a phone 
conference, augmented by online presentation material.    (03)

Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community that engages 
in the learning, discourse and development of domain ontologies. 
This community is making an effort 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. Your 
sharing with us the experience and insight, and affording us the 
chance to have an open dialog with you along those lines will be 
most appreciated.    (04)

I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your 
convenience (hopefully no later than Oct. 31, 2005):    (05)

(a) the title of your talk, and    (06)

(b) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a 
couple of paragraphs will do).    (07)

(c) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg 
or gif format),    (08)

(d) 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?DougLenat -- your may 
need to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user "DougLenat" 
before editing on the wiki (access is at the upper right of wiki 
page)).    (09)

Once I get the above, I will start circulating the information 
among the community (we should be doing that at least a couple of 
weeks before the event), so that people could mark their 
calendars and plan to attend.    (010)

Closer to the time (say, by Nov. 8, 2006, although this is not a 
hard deadline), please send me:    (011)

(e) your presentation material* (in powerpoint, pdf, sxi, html, 
png, jpg or some common electronic format) so that I can post it 
online for access during the session. (Optionally, you may choose 
  to have that posted a week or so in advance of your talk, or 
the morning of your session.)    (012)

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 most of 
the virtual attendees during the event.    (013)

(f) After I receive your presentation material, we will schedule 
a phone session (or, in this case, probably a skype 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 should do this while you are at the venue where you plan 
to be presenting from (e.g. your office, your home, ... etc. 
because each may present different connectivity issues we would 
need to tackle). 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    (014)

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.    (015)

Additionally, we will be 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.    (016)

Once again, thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to 
having a dialog with the Ontolog 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.    (017)


Sincerely,
=PPY    (018)

Peter P. Yim
[ontolog-forum], co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
Phone: (650) 578-9998    (019)


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 service which we employ to allow the audience to be 
in sync with you on your slide presentation.  =ppy    (020)

P.P.S. With your permission, I would like to add you to our 
community mailing list, so that we can continue to have you as 
part of the community. Please confirm.  =ppy
--     (021)

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