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[ontolog-admin] Ontolog Invited Speaker - Alan Rector - Thu 2006.09.14

To: Alan Rector <rector@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin]" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Musen <musen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:07:58 -0700
Message-id: <44DACD3E.5060703@xxxxxxxx>
Dear Professor Rector,    (01)


Further to our recent discussion, I would like to thank you, on 
behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to speak at 
the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, 14th September, 2006. As you may 
already be aware, the Ontolog community engages in the learning, 
discourse and development of ontologies, and 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 ). Your 
giving us a talk in "Terminologies and Ontologies," and sharing 
your experience/insight on that topic would definitely be of 
great interest to the community. 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 to 
start at 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PDT / 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 minutes.  The session 
will be held over a phone conference, augmented by online 
presentation material.    (03)

I need from you (a month before the talk, i.e. on/before 
14-Aug-2006):    (04)

(a) the title for your talk (already received),    (05)

(b) an abstract on your talk,    (06)

(c) a recent picture of yours, and    (07)

(d) a short biographic sketch of yourself (already received).    (08)

Upon receipt of the above, I will build out the session wiki page 
and announce the event, so that people could mark their calendars 
and plan to attend.    (09)

Closer to the time (say, a week before your talk, although this 
is not a hard deadline), please send me:    (010)

(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.    (011)

During the talk, you will need to prompt the audience to advance 
the slides (and call out the slide number, every time you change 
slides). I will be in control of a shared-screen server (a VNC 
server) and will advance the slides for you. If you need to run 
another applications (say, a web browser or some demo 
application) and share the screen, 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 (although 
participants who are behind tight corporate firewalls may have to 
download your slides and run them on their own desktop.)    (012)

You are requested to take a look at the hints we have for 
sessions like this at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips    (013)

For your reference, please take a look at the wiki session pages 
of similar recent presentations, which you can access under 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (for 
example, Dr. Pat Cassidy's recent session at: 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13). 
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.) After the wiki page for your session has 
been created, you are encouraged to post additional relevant 
resources (papers, links, references, ... etc.) to support your 
presentation.    (014)

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 have 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.    (015)

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. Please acknowledge this message now (so 
that I can be sure it did get delivered properly.)    (016)


Sincerely,
=PPY    (017)

Peter P. Yim
[ontolog-forum], co-convener
http://ontolog.cim3.net
Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998    (018)


P.S. *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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