As a straw poll, who would be interested in scheduling another date on
implementation and invite speakers to submit ideas for a proposal? The
format usually involves 3-4 vendors, each talking for 10 minutes followed by
5 minutes Q&A then a 30 minute open Q&A. (01)
Duane (02)
On 9/4/07 7:55 PM, "paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx" <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: (03)
> Hi Peter
> thanks a lot for your extensive reply
>
> What about adding a chapter/paragraph to the wiki with process guidelines
> about
> 'how to organize a talk', or 'how to be invited to give a talk'
> so that people can put forward their ideas and suggestions for future
> sessions?
>
> A suggestion could be that anyone organizing a talk, would make an
> open invitationt
> to others who may want to present around the same topic, as to create
> 'topic clusters'
> and get different perspectives on the same topic ( eating our own framework)
> This could be mentioned in the guidelines
>
> Great that vendors are not encouraged, but somehow 'selling' manages to slip
> in
>
> great work!
> cheers
>
> Paola DM
>
>
>
> On 9/5/07, Peter P. Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:14:31 +0700:
>>> ...[snip]...
>>>
>>> [PDM] do we have a formal way to suggesting/voting for sessions? how
>>> are these sessions chosen?how do we know how many people are
>>> interested in a topic? could we have a 'call for sessions' where people
>>> can submit their talks and then maybe have more than one speaker
>>> present around the same topic, to have a plurality of views and enrich
>>> the discourse?
>>
>> For those who are new to the community, our regular weekly
>> conference calls are on Thursdays starting 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm
>> EDT / 6:30pm BST / 7:30pm CEST / 17:30 GMT/UTC (adjusted back to
>> PST & EST when the US gets off daylight saving time.)
>>
>> When we don't have a scheduled events (like an invited talk or
>> panel discussion), we will, by default, use that slot for (what
>> we call) our "regular operations planning and review meeting"
>> where active members of the community get together and review our
>> activities and well being, suggest new ideas, corrective actions,
>> etc. etc. These calls are only announced on the wiki (under "News
>> and Announcements" (in order not to create additional mail
>> traffic), but everyone who cares is welcomed to join in. One can
>> also send in his/her idea(s) for discussion, through the
>> mailing list or the wiki session page, in absentia.
>>
>> Practically all Ontolog initiatives are community driven. The
>> best way to make something happen is to (i) announce the idea,
>> (ii) get enough people to support and idea (and be willing to
>> work on it), (iii) create a project/initiative, form a team,
>> appoint a champion and (iv) then go do it. The champion of an
>> initiative is generally trusted with making the calls and seeing
>> to it that we have a top quality program.
>>
>> In the past, new initiatives, projects, programs, etc. generally
>> come out of these discussions, or from ideas informally brought
>> up in the discussion list. And, without exception, champions of
>> all past initiatives have made open calls to the entire community
>> for participation (as team members, as presenters, etc.)
>>
>> That's the informal way things get done around here. The formal
>> way is documented under:
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid1Y ...
>> both should work, but of course, the formal way is normative.
>>
>>
>>> [PDM] I wonder For example, if vendor a can come up and
>>> sell their stoffe, it would be only fair if vendor b
>>> could do the same... and to balance the vendor perspective,
>>> we could have users, observers, researchers, all providing
>>> their perspective (which now they can do in form of questions
>>> and answers, but it does not get captured as being part of
>>> the topic, merely follow up) just ideas .. cheers, PDM
>>
>> By default we intend to keep our distance from commercial
>> vending, as discussed earlier - see:
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-09/msg00031.html#nid02
>>
>> ... commercial products and vending have slightly different
>> objectives from what we are chartered to do. "Selling" is
>> probably better done elsewhere, than over the settings of a
>> purely volunteered (and community donated) effort that we operate
>> on here.
>>
>>
>> Regards. =ppy
>>
>> Peter Yim
>> Co-convener, Ontolog
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