---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Desilets, Alain Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: 2 weeks left for submissions deadline

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W i k i S y m 2 0 0 8

The International Symposium on Wikis

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/

September 8-10, 2008 Porto, Portugal

In-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB * ACM-DL Archived

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After the excellent response in terms of paper submissions, we are sending now a gentle reminder to inform that the deadline for submitting posters, demos, WikiFest proposals, and DoctoralSpace proposals is still open and due in about *2 weeks*.

Please visit our website at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/ for more information or contact the chairs, Ademar Aguiar and Mark Bernstein through chair@wikisym.org.

Best Regards,

Alain Désilets Mark Bernstein Ademar Aguiar NRC Canada Eastgate Systems University of Porto Publicity Chair Program Chair Conference Chair

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IMPORTANT DATES

* June 11th: submissions deadline for posters, demos, and DoctoralSpace proposals * June 25th: notifications for research papers, practitioner reports, panels, tutorials, DoctoralSpace proposals, posters, and demos * July 19th: final revised pdf's are due * Sept 8th-10th: WikiSym 2008 days

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SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Conference: Ademar Aguiar, INESC Porto, University of Porto, Portugal Program: Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA Honorary: Ward Cunningham, About Us, USA Workshops & Panels: Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA OpenSpace: Ted Ernst, About Us, USA WikiFest: Stewart Mader, WikiPatterns.org, Atlassian, Australia; Uri Dekel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tutorials: Marc Laporte, TikiWiki.org, Canada Posters and Demos: Martin Cleaver, Blended Perspectives, Canada Treasurer and Sponsorships: Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, USA Publicity: Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada; Marissa Hoftiezer, Carleton University, Canada Web: Nuno Flores, University of Porto, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, USA (Chair)

Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, USA Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Canada Dan Bricklin, Software Garden, USA Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Thomas Burg, Socialware, Austria Ward Cunningham, About Us, USA Chris Dent, Peermore, Ltd., United Kingdom Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada Lilia Efimova, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands Ted Ernst, About Us, USA Andrea Forte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Fraunhofer-Institut für Software und Systemtechnik, Germany Susan Herring, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Samuel J. Klein, One Laptop Per Child, USA George Landow, Brown University, USA Helmut Leitner, WikiService, Austria Stewart Mader, Atlassian, Australia/USA Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research, USA J. Nathan Matias, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute, USA Adrian Miles, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia David Millard, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore, USA James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, USA Scott Rosenberg, cofounder, Salon, USA Jeremy Ruston, BT, United Kingdom Christoph Sauer, Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany Frank Shipman, Texas A&M, USA