Dear Pat, (01)
Great! Thank you for agreeing to give the talk. (02)
As mentioned, the community has shortlisted a few speakers we
would like to invite (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_08_03#nidP7H),
and it will be great to make that happen before the end of the
year (which, amazingly enough, isn't even that far away!) (03)
We are fortunate that two very interesting,
community-interest-driven, mini-series's has emerged shortly
(near end Aug) after that Aug. 3 meeting mentioned above. They
are on "Ontology Measurement and Evaluation" and "Database and
Ontology", which Steve Ray and Matthew West are leading,
respectively. Each of the series is planning to mount one event a
month for the coming six months or so. (04)
Traditionally (special series events aside), we've been
scheduling about one invited speaker and one technical discussion
event a month (to make sure we don't drive the community
membership into a state of fatigue). We also try to avoid
conflicting with outside scheduled events where the good number
of our membership might be engaged -- with that, Nov. 2006 does
appear to be a very busy month outside, for semantic web folks
and ontologists, (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RelevantEventsOfInterest2006#nidP94)
and we have to be very careful scheduling events ourselves during
that month to avoid conflicts. (05)
Fyi, our standard weekly time slot for our events (2-Hrs) &
meetings (1.0~1.5 Hr) are on Thursdays, 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM
EDT / 17:30 UTC ... and quite a few of our members have set aside
that window, each week, for Ontolog activities. We try to stick
to that timing the best we can. (06)
So much for scheduling ... As for content, it'll be totally your
call. One suggestion would be to spend half of the talk on your
personal 'signature' topic, and the other half on some bleeding
edge (maybe even unpublished) work of yours. We do record and
podcast all our sessions, and that archived body of knowledge has
already become a highly valued source of reference for the
industry. The typical attendees at a virtual session number
around 10~40, but we also get upto a few hundred asynchronous
accesses to each of the archive lecture(s) every month (some
talks that have already been around for years are still getting
200~300 downloads every month). Therefore, I have told our
invited speakers that they can look at this as a 'recording
session' too. (07)
A fairly ideal arrangement, is to consider the possibility of
weaving your invited talk into one of the events in one of the
two ongoing mini-series. Of course, that's only a suggestion ...
again, your call (and in the case of the mini-series, our program
leads' call too)! (08)
Thoughts, Pat? ... Matthew, Steve? (09)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (010)
Pat Hayes wrote Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:08:13 -0500:
> Peter Yim wrote Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:45:42 -0700:
>> Look forward to having you with us this Thursday, Pat.
>>
>> In general, the inclusion of your name in the expected attendee list
>> of a session (see:
>> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_05#nidQI5>
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_05#nidQI5
>> in this case) will take the place of my acknowledgement.
>
> I understand. Lets keep administration to a minimum :-)
>
>>
>> The Ontolog community would want to invite you to give a (virtual)
>> talk as part of our invited speaker series. Let's try to work out the
>> details, if you would give us the honour.
>
> Sure, but the honor's mine. Lets talk/email more about what kind of
> stuff you want to hear about.
>
> Pat
>
>>
>> Best regards. =ppy
>> -- (011)
>> On 3 Oct 2006 14:35:57 -0700, Conference Call RSVP Manager
>> <<mailto:rsvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>rsvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
>>
>>
>> The following RSVP was received for your conference on
>> FreeConference.com.
>>
>> Start Time: Thursday, October 05, 2006 at 10:30 AM PDT
>>
>> Name:<mailto:phayes@xxxxxxx>Patrick Hayes Response:Invitation Accepted
>> Remarks:
>
>
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