Dear Jim, (01)
Thanks to Michael for forwarding detail items (a) through (d)
today regarding your talk. I have already initialized the session
page on our wiki site. Kindly review the content and feel free to
make additions and amendments. Additional information that will
reinforce the content in preparing the audience for your talk
will be greatly appreciated. You can find the page at: (02)
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 (03)
May I thank you once again for agreeing to give a talk to our
community. I shall look forward to the session on Dec. 8. (04)
Thanks & regards. =ppy (05)
Peter Yim
Ontolog, co-convener (06)
P.S. Michael, ref. our discussion, once we get a next iteration
of the abstract together (feel free to edit it directly onto the
wiki, but let me know after you have done so), I will proceed to
announce the event through the [ontolog-forum] as well as other
collegial channels. Thank you very much for your help in
co-organizing this event. =ppy
-- (07)
Peter P. Yim wrote Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:58:58 -0800:
> Dear Dr. Spohrer,
>
>
> Further to your confirmation to our invitation, I would like to thank
> you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to speak
> at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, December 8, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 relevant work, experience and insight will be most
> appreciated.
>
> I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your
> convenience (hopefully no later than Nov. 8, 2005):
>
> (a) the title of your talk, and
>
> (b) an abstract of your talk (anywhere from a few sentences to a couple
> of paragraphs will do).
>
> (c) a recent picture of yours (about 150x150 pixels, in png, jpg or gif
> format),
>
> (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?JimSpohrer -- your may need
> to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user "JimSpohrer" before
> editing on the wiki (access is at the upper right of wiki page)).
>
> 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.
>
> Closer to the time (say, by Nov. 30, 2005, although this is not a hard
> deadline), please send me:
>
> (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.)
>
> 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.
>
> (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 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
>
> 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 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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 service
> which we employ to allow the audience to be in sync with you on your
> slide presentation. =ppy
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