ERRATA: corrected the time cited (PDT & EDT instead of PST & EST)
as well as minor edits. =ppy
-- (01)
Peter P. Yim wrote Mon, 22 May 2006 06:39:50 -0700:
> Dear Matthew,
>
>
> Further to our recent e-mail exchanges, I would like to thank
> you, on behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to
> speak at the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, June 1, 2006. 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
> 17:30~19:30 UTC / 18:30~20:30 GMT / 8:30am~10:30am PDT /
> 11:30am~1:30pm EDT. Depending on the number of participants, the
> session will probably start with about 10~15 minutes for
> self-introductions by participants and for getting everyone
> settled in. We will then formally introduce you. 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.
>
> The [ontolog] community engages in the learning, discourse and
> development of ontologies, is trying 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 giving us
> this talk (as discussed) on ISO 18876 - integration of industrial data
> for exchange access and sharing (IIDEAS), providing an architectural
> framework for integrating/federating and what it involves, as well as
> affording us the chance to
> have an open dialog with you will be truly valued and appreciated..
>
> To recap, I need from you:
>
> (a) the title for your talk, (ppy: need this quickly)
>
> (b) an abstract of your talk, (ppy: need this quickly)
>
> (c) a link to a recent picture of yours (ppy: I've already got this, but
> feel free to send an update), and
>
> (d) a short biographic sketch of yourself (ppy: I've already got this,
> but feel free to send an update).
>
> I'd appreciate if you can send me (a) and (b) above within a day or two
> (allowing me to get things rolling before I leave for my impending
> trip). Upon receipt of them, I will build out the
> session wiki page and announce the event, so that people could
> mark their calendars and plan to attend.
>
> Closer to the time (say, two or three days before your talk, although
> this is not a hard deadline), please send me:
>
> (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. (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. If you have trouble with
> the VNC server access, I can always advance slides for you on
> your prompt.
>
> (f) 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). 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, 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.
>
> 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 also subscribe you to the
> [ontolog-forum] mailing list so that you will be kept abreast of
> the exchanges prior to, and following your presentation. I will
> assume that these are 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 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.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> =PPY
>
> Peter P. Yim
> [ontolog-forum], co-convener
> http://ontolog.cim3.net
> Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998
>
>
> P.S. *Please note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other
> presentation material), please (a) make sure you number the
> slides, and (b) 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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