Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: ECOOP/OOPSLA Workshops Message-ID: <135300032@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 17:41:33 GMT Lines: 65 Nf-ID: #N:p.cs.uiuc.edu:135300032:000:3323 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!johnson Feb 22 07:13:00 1990 ECOOP/OOPSLA '90 Workshops ------------------------------------------------------- Workshops will be an important part of ECOOP/OOPSLA '90. They ensure a close and fruitful interaction between experts in a narrow subject area, and complement the panel discussions and the paper presentations of the technical sessions. The workshops should be small in size, normally less than 30 people. This makes debate and discussion possible. Workshops should have only (active) discussants and no (passive) public. Workshops are not the place for experts to debate in front of an observing public; that is the purpose of panels. The basic ingredient in a workshop is the short, on-the-spot, improvised reaction, not the carefully planned and polished presentation; that is the purpose of the Conference itself. You can organize a workshop by sending a proposal to either the European co-chair or the American co-chair, whose addresses will follow. The proposal should describe as precisely as possible the topic of the workshop, should mention people or projects that you hope would be represented, and should briefly describe the format that you plan to follow. Workshops attendees will be required to send position papers. One of your jobs as an organizer is to read these position papers and decide who should be allowed to attend and who should not be allowed to attend. If there are only a small number of position papers then you can accept all reasonable position papers, but if there are a lot of them then you will have to make hard choices. You will need to have reviewed position papers and decided on who will attend by the end of August. Your second job as an organizer is to preside over the actual meeting. The workshops will normally last a day, though exceptions can be granted by petitioning the workshop co-chairs. The workshops will be held the first few days of ECOOP/OOPSLA '90, which is October 21-25, before the technical sessions. Although you may state the day that you prefer the workshop to be held, scheduling is the job of the workshop co-chairs. Your last job as an organizer is to ensure that a record of the workshop is published. If a select group of specialists work together for a day or so, it is to be expected that something interesting will come out of it. The easiest way to create a record is to appoint someone to take minutes of the workshop, to have the minutes typed that evening or the following day (word processors will be provided) and distributed to the attendees for correction and comment while they are still at ECOOP/OOPSLA. This record is in addition to the position papers, which should be distributed to the workshop attendees either before or at the start of the workshop. Narrow topics are preferred over broad ones. The workshop co-chairs will be happy to provide feedback on possible proposals. Proposals are due March 1. Jean Francois Perrot Ralph E. Johnson European co-chair for workshops American co-chair for workshops jfp@litp.ibp.fr johnson@cs.uiuc.edu LAFORIA, Tour 46-00, 3eme etage, Dept of Computer Science Universite Paris VI 1304 W. Springfield Ave. 4 Place Jussieu, F-75232 Paris Cedex 05 Urbana, IL 61801 France phone: (33-1) 43 54 85 64 phone: (217) 244-0093 Fax: (33-1) 46 34 19 27 FAX: (217) 333-3501