Dear Dr. Ferrucci, (01)
Further to your confirmation with Dr. E. Michael Maximilien, I
would like to thank you, on behalf of the community, for
accepting our invitation to speak at the Ontolog-Forum on
Thursday, May 11, 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. Dr. Maximilien will then formally introduce you;
after which your virtual presentation (of approximately 45~60
minutes) will follow. Past the end of that presentation, there
will be Q&A and an open discussion for about 30~45 minutes. This
will be done over a phone conference setting, augmented by online
presentation material. (03)
"Ontolog" is an open, international community of practice that
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
lead architect for UIMA, your sharing with us that Architecture,
as well as your experience and insight will really be educational
to our community as a whole. Additionally, 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 a week): (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?DavidFerrucci -- your may
need to do a "Create Account" or "Login" for the user
"DavidFerrucci" 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 week 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: (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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