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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [Commons-research] Call for Papers - DRAFT VERSION (Giorgos Cheliotis)
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:33:37 +0800

Yes, great diea...hopefully we will have more time for the jurisdictions
to talk this year...but still like this format for pushing through
poster-like sessions and getting more low barrier entries.

Jon

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:04 +1000, Jessica Coates wrote:
> Hey Giorgos
>
> Most happy to help out with Speedgeeking, and I think it's a brilliant idea
> that will add a lot of practicality to the conference (though I did have to
> look it up). Makes me think of the CC jurisdiction projects session at
> Dubrovnik, where everyone presented what they're doing in 5 minutes.
>
> Let us know if you need anything from us - in the meantime we'll put our
> heads together about who might be appropriate.
>
>
> Jessica Coates
> Project Manager
> Creative Commons Clinic
> Queensland University of Technology
>
> ph: 07 3138 8301
> fax: 07 3138 9598
> email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au
>
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> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:29:07 +0800
> From: "Giorgos Cheliotis" <giorgos AT smu.edu.sg>
> Subject: [Commons-research] Call for Papers - DRAFT VERSION
> To: <commons-research AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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> 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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