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[ontolog-admin] Ontolog Invited Speaker - Denise Bedford - Thu 2006.04.1

To: Denise Bedford <dbedford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:17:08 -0700
Message-id: <44348834.8000502@xxxxxxxx>
Dear Dr. Bedford,    (01)


Further to your confirmation, I would like to thank you, on 
behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to speak at 
the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, April 13, 2006. 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 
  1:30~3:30pm EDT / 10:30am~12:30pm PDT / 17:30~19:30 UTC.  The 
session will start with about 10~15 minutes for 
self-introductions by participants and for getting everyone 
settled in. We will then formally introduce you; after which your 
virtual presentation (of approximately 45~60 minutes) will 
follow. After the presentation, there will be an open discussion 
for about 30~45 minutes.  This will be over a phone conference, 
augmented by online presentation material.    (03)

The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and 
development of both formal and informal ontologies. It is 
chartered 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 
an industry and technology leader, your sharing with us the 
experience and insight will be educational to the community as a 
whole. Addi tonally, your providing us the chance to have an open 
dialog with you will be valued and appreciated. .    (04)

I shall look forward to receiving the following from you, at your 
earliest convenience (hopefully within the next day or two):    (05)

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

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

(c) a recent picture of yours (about 200 x 200 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?DeniseBedford -- your may 
need to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user 
"DeniseBedford" before editing on the wiki (access is at the 
upper right of wiki page)).    (09)

Once I get the above, I will start building out the session wiki 
page and announce the event, so that people could mark their 
calendars and plan to attend.    (010)

Closer to the time (say, a day or two before the talk), please 
send me:    (011)

(e) your presentation material* (in pdf, powerpoint, sxi, html, 
png, jpg or some common electronic format) so that I can post it 
online for access during the session.    (012)

During the talk, I will advance the slides for you on your 
prompt. Alternatively, you can choose to take control of our 
shared-screen server (a VNC server) that will allow you to run 
your own 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) 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 
.  After I receive your presentation material (and if you choose 
to control your only slides during the session), 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).    (014)

For your reference, please feel free to check out the wiki pages 
of similar recent presentations, which you can access under 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ . They 
should provide some clues 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. I hereby, 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 this is acceptable to 
you unless I hear from you otherwise.    (016)

Once again, we've been honored to have you as an Ontolog member. 
Thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to having a dialog 
with the rest of 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: +1 (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)

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