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  • From: "Giorgos Cheliotis" <giorgos AT smu.edu.sg>
  • To: <commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Commons-research] Call for Papers - DRAFT VERSION
  • Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:29:07 +0800

Here I attach a version I put together of the call for papers for the
research workshop we plan for the iSummit. This is something I produced on my
own after consulting comments posted on the icommons mailing list and on the
wiki page: http://wiki.icommons.org/index.php/ISummit_2008/Research_track.
Feel free to critique any aspect of this draft. I'm going out on a limb here
by putting this out for discussion, but someone needs to make a start and get
the ball rolling. Please help me make it better and fill in the blanks. This
workshop is an experiment, and like all experiments, it may well fail. It is
up to us to make it succeed.

*Chair*
The greatest gap currently is the lack of one or more workshop Chairs, i.e.
1-3 people who will be members of the final program committee but will also
bear more responsibility with respect to the steering of the workshop and
should ideally be well-known personalities with a substantial academic track
record (keyword: "heavyweight"). I also feel that at least one of them should
NOT be a law professor, to signal that the workshop will be multidisciplinary
(even if many names that come to mind would come from Law). Feel free to
nominate one or more persons for this role, irrespective of whether they are
on the program committee list of this version or not.

*Sponsors*
Do we need sponsors? This could help in giving the workshop additional
credibility and financial support. (Do we really need the latter? Possibly
not). Can you help us get some sponsors?

*Program committee*
To help move things forward I went out on a limb here again by checking
everyone's background to make sure that people on the academic program
committee have some research credentials in the form of being affiliated with
a research/educational institution and having published at least one research
paper in a credible journal or conference and/or having a PhD and/or having
been a reviewer for academic work before. If someone is not on the list it is
because I did not find any evidence of research output for this person, or
because he/she has not yet stated clearly that he/she wishes to be included
in the committee. However, I did include James Grimmelmann on my own
initiative as I saw that he has subscribed to the list and I believe he
should definitely be on the program committee :)

*Speed-geeking*
I have also proactively added Jessica Coates, Mike Linksvayer and Kevin
Driscoll (all of whom have subscribed to the list) as members of a
Speed-geeking Committee that will help us organize a practice-oriented
speed-geeking session, to complement the more purely academic presentations
of the main workshop program. I believe each of them is qualified to add some
interesting content in terms of use cases, tech demos or art demos to the
speed-geeking session.

If anyone feels that they should be on or off either the academic program
commitee or the speed-geeking committee, please let me know with an email. If
you wish to be included to the academic program committee and I may not know
your research work, please also provide at least some minimal evidence of
research output. We are a very broad community and I know only some of you
better, so please don't get mad at me if I make mistakes in how I handle
this. I'm trying to be as inclusive as possible, without compromising some
basic standards of peer review.

That's all for now
Giorgos


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