Hi Nicolas,
While I appreciate the desire and commitment to be open by default and I am big supporter of Aaron's reminders to all of us for staying open as much as we can, I'd like to put some different perspective here, as the topic of video-recording for academic conferences has been relatively hot in the past few years. :)
I do believe that the organizers of academic conferences (and I emphasize on the academic component, I do have very different perspectives for a conference such as Wikimania or an event like WikiCite) should consider cost tradeoffs very carefully when choosing to record the sessions at all or not. For context, I'm the general co-chair for The Web Conference 2019 (a.k.a., WWW2019) and we actively discuss this topic in the context of that conference. Some things to consider:
* The cost of recording (almost) all sessions, depending on where you organize the conference can be really high. For example, for a conference in San Francisco, unless the conference is organized on a federal land (which is not the case for TWC2019), we cannot have volunteers recording the sessions. Professional crew will have to do it, and one will have to look at the costs carefully. We will be talking certainly about more than $150K.
* KDD has been doing recording of many of its sessions in the past couple of years. The view counts of these videos are not very high. I understand that view counts is not the only measure of success for a video, but I also would argue that if the cost is very high, and resources are constrained, someone should look into the value the recording will bring for the global community of researchers.
* In the limited subset of conferences I attend or I'm in network of, year in and year out, Networking is chosen as the top reason for coming to the conference. Many choose to attend a few talks and spend the rest of the time just talking to people. :) Just today a colleague reminded me of this: people who attend these conferences have already decided what is the most valuable item for them in this conference. Why should we take the second or third most favorite part of the conference and record it for others? Why don't we focus on the top commodity and make it available to those who can't attend? This is something to keep in mind.
* Someone should seriously look into this, but there is argument to be made that if the money spent on recording is very large compared to the size of the budget for the conference, channeling that to student scholarships and providing an opportunity to students who normally would not make it to these conferences to experience the networking side of the conference (which is rated very high usually in surveys) can be a better choice. I'm not talking about providing scholarships to the students who would make it anyway, but thinking carefully about those who would never make it on their own unless we would proactively reach out to them and help them make the journey happen.
Good luck with organizing OpenSym. I have even a bigger respect now that I'm at this side of a big conference for people like you and your colleagues who stand up, many times as volunteers, and make these conferences happen. :)
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Nicolas Jullien Nicolas.Jullien@telecom-bretagne.eu wrote:
Hello,
our plan is that they will, we are committed to that, but also that the papers are accessible before the presentation. Olivier and Georg, in cc, are already working on that aspect.
My philosophy is that the goal of the presentations (and of being in Paris) must be to interact better, to build on the research presented, in a world to have time to co-construct the next steps.
But, of course, if you guys reading cannot be in Paris with us (August 22-24), we will make our best to provide you with the tools to be connected with the conference
Nicolas
Le 17/01/2018 à 21:59, Aaron Halfaker a écrit :
Hi Nicolas!
Thanks for sending the CFP. Any chance that the talks will be live-streamed this year? :)
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Nicolas Jullien <Nicolas.Jullien@telecom-bretagne.eu mailto:Nicolas.Jullien@telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote:
Dear all, it's my pleasure to inform you that the call for paper for OpenSym 2018 is available. Conference Website and call for papers: http://opensym.org Papers are due by March 15, 23h59 (any time on Earth). Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018> (accepted rate in 2017: 45%) Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects related to open collaboration including: - Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media - Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) - Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science - Open Education - IT-Driven Open Innovation - Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law - Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research Looking forward to seeing your paper's presentation in Paris Nicolas Jullien, general chair of OpenSym 2018 About the Conference -------------------- OpenSym is the only conference that brings together the different strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing our society. This year’s conference will be held in Paris, France on August 22-24, 2018. A Doctoral Symposium will take place on August 21, 2018. OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all prior editions. Submission Information and Instructions --------------------------------------- Topics: The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on subjects related to open collaboration including: - Open Collaboration Research, esp. Wikis and Social Media - Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) - Open Data, Open Access, and Open Science - Open Education - IT-Driven Open Innovation - Open Policy/Open Government/Open Law - Wikipedia and Wikimedia Research Paper Presentation: OpenSym 2018 will be organized as a one track conference in order to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of this conference and to encourage discussion. Submission Deadline: The research paper submission deadline is March 15th 2018. Submitted papers should present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation. All the submissions are done via the EasyChair platform, here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2018> Paper Length: There is no minimum or maximum length for submitted papers. Rather, reviewers will be instructed to weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. Papers should report research thoroughly but succinctly: brevity is a virtue. A typical length of a “long research paper” is 10 pages (formerly the maximum length limit and the limit on OpenSym tracks), but may be shorter if the contribution can be described and supported in fewer pages—shorter, more focused papers (called “short research papers” previously) are encouraged and will be reviewed like any other paper. While we will review papers longer than 10 pages, the contribution must warrant the extra length. Reviewers will be instructed to reject papers whose length is incommensurate with the size of their contribution. Papers should be formatted in ACM SIGCHI paper format. Reviewing is not double-blind so manuscripts do not need to be anonymized. Posters: As in previous years, OpenSym will also be hosting a poster session at the conference. To propose a poster, authors should submit an extended abstract (not more than 4 pages) describing the content of the poster which will be published in a non-archival companion proceedings to the conference. Posters should use the ACM SIGCHI templates for extended abstracts. An example of a poster abstract can be found here. Reviewing is not double-blind so abstracts do not need to be anonymized. Paper Proceedings: OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all prior editions. OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on including disciplines with archival conference proceedings and disciplines where authors usually present at conferences and publish later. Authors, whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference have a choice of: having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, having their paper published in the conference website only, with no transfer of copyright from the authors, having no publication record at all but only the presentation at the conference. Response from authors: For the second time at OpenSym, authors will be given the opportunity to write a response to their reviews before final decisions are made. This should be treated as an opportunity to correct any mistakes or misconceptions in the reviews as well as to propose minor changes that the authors can make during the two weeks between notification and the camera-ready deadline. Important Dates Submission deadline: March 15, 2018 Reviews sent to authors: May 11, 2018 Response to reviews from authors due: May 20, 2018 Final decision notification: June 15, 2018 Camera-ready papers due: June 22, 2018 Papers available online: July 13, 2018 Conference Organization The general chairs of the conference are Nicolas Jullien and Olivier Berger, IMT, France. 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