I have a better proposal for the meeting place of the ISWC, a paradisical
island, with excellent weather (the summer is running all year round) and
communications facilities, which is now becoming a destination point for all
sorts of international conferences: CYPRUS (Paphos), at the crossroad of
Asia, Africa, and Europe. (01)
Azamat Abdoullaev (02)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Holmes" <dholmes@xxxxxxx>
To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Endorsing the Proposal to have ISWC 2009 in
theNorthern Virginia/Greater Washington DC Area (03)
>I think think this [and the implied association with ISWC] is a good
> idea. I second the motion.
> Doug
>
> On Sep 20, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Peter Yim wrote:
>
>> Further to recent discussions and that at our Ontolog conference call
>> today, there is an ongoing initiative led by Leo Obrst (MITRE) and
>> Mike Dean (BBN). They are working up a proposal for the International
>> Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2009 to be held in the Northern
>> Virginia/Greater Washington DC Area of the United States.
>>
>> 1. The leads of this initiative are looking for a letter of
>> endorsement [1] as a form of support which Mike will present to the
>> ISWC Organizers along with the proposal (when he travels to Korea for
>> ISWC 2007 this coming November.)
>>
>> 2. Leo's suggested draft of the endorsement letter simply reads:
>>
>> //
>> Letter of Endorsement for ISWC 2009 Northern Virginia/Greater
>> Washington DC Proposal
>>
>> Date:
>>
>>
>> To Whom It May Concern:
>>
>> I strongly support the proposal to host ISWC 2009 in the Northern
>> Virginia/Greater Washington DC, USA area.
>>
>> I am very interested in participating in ISWC 2009 if it is held in
>> this location, and will seek my organization's sponsorship for this
>> event.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> YourName
>> //
>>
>> While ONTOLOG is not in a position to provide any sort of monetary
>> support, we could, at the least, encourage our membership to
>> participate and contribute content.
>>
>> 3. I move that ONTOLOG furnishes this endorsement (as qualified above)
>> as a sign of our support. (Disclosure: I am not from the Greater
>> Washington DC Area, but a lot of the Ontolog community members are.)
>> ... I need someone to second this motion.
>>
>> 4. Upon the motion being seconded, let's open this up for discussion
>> for one calendar week. At the end of that period, we will either (a)
>> summarily carry the motion if we don't see major objections; (b) put
>> it to a vote by the active members, if we are split between supporters
>> and objectors, or (c) defeat the motion if the general sentiment is
>> against providing the endorsement.
>>
>>
>> Regards. =ppy
>>
>> Peter Yim
>> Co-convener, ONTOLOG
>>
>>
>> P.S. For your information, ISWC 2007 (alongside ASWC 2007) is being
>> held this coming November 11~15, 2007 at Busan, Korea - see details
>> at: http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/
>> ... ISWC 2008 is slated to be held at Karlsruhe, Germany. ... I
>> understand that "Early Registration" for ISWC 2007 has just been
>> extended to 30-Sep-2007. Therefore, if you are serious about tracking
>> the progress of the Semantic Web, register for the conference now!
>>
>> P.P.S. I'm sure Leo and Mike will appreciate if YOUR ORGANIZATION can
>> provide a similar letter of endorsement to them too. Therefore, if you
>> are in a position to get that, please! Letters of endorsement should
>> be forwarded to Dr. Leo Obrst at <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> on/before end
>> October 2007.
>>
>> =ppy
>> --
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