Dear Jim, (01)
We have announced your talk to the community, and are starting to
receive registration from people who are planning to attend. (02)
Details of the session can be found, as previously mentioned, on
the Ontolog wiki site at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 (03)
Please feel free to forward that information to other parties
whom you would like to see participate at the call. (04)
Good news ... I have invited Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart to come to
the event and to introduce the speaker for us during your
session, and he has kindly accepted. Therefore, Doug will be
introducing you at the session, Jim. I have already updated our
agenda to reflect that too! (05)
I'm looking forward to the event. (06)
Sincerely. =ppy
-- (07)
Peter P. Yim wrote Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:46:11 -0800:
> Dear Jim,
>
> 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:
>
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks & regards. =ppy
>
> Peter Yim
> Ontolog, co-convener
>
> 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
> -- (08)
> 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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