On 2 January 2014 04:24, James Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com wrote:
Everyone,
I would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels, tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2014 in London this coming August.
Note that the deadline is the end of March; we hope to have final decisions about the programme by the end of April.
[0] – https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
All,
A reminder that this deadline is just over *one week away* – by the end of 31 March.
Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300 words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your proposal should be accepted over others.
(For the curious, we will accept submissions up to 23:59 UTC−12:00 on 31 March 2014, which is 11:59 UTC on 1 April 2014, but not later.)
Yours,
On 03/23/2014 05:06 PM, James Forrester wrote:
Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300 words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your proposal should be accepted over others.
I must admit that requirement gives me pause, James. I've yet to meet a conference where they didn't place a strict /maximum/ length to abstracts, usually at some point below 250 words(!)
Honestly, if you need 300 words to summarize a presentation that is meant to occupy less than 30 minutes, your doing either abstract or presentation wrong! :-)
-- Marc
I agree with Marc.
I edited the brochure for Wikimania 2011 and I spent a lot of time making the abstracts *shorter*. Unless somebody plans to publish a Wikimania proceedings book of at least a 100 pages, the abstracts should be *no more* than 200 words or so. When it is *no less* than 300 words, the whole presentation can be replaced by it.
Is this really a hard requirement?
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2014-03-25 3:59 GMT+02:00 Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org:
On 03/23/2014 05:06 PM, James Forrester wrote:
Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300 words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your proposal should be accepted over others.
I must admit that requirement gives me pause, James. I've yet to meet a conference where they didn't place a strict /maximum/ length to abstracts, usually at some point below 250 words(!)
Honestly, if you need 300 words to summarize a presentation that is meant to occupy less than 30 minutes, your doing either abstract or presentation wrong! :-)
-- Marc
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Hi all,
I am probably missing some page somewhere but I would really like to know if there is adescription of the different formats for the presentations/submission, i.e. discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop.
In particular, what is the "hot seat" format? (besides that being August in London it will probably be "muggy seat" =P)
Thanks,
Cristian
I guess it is just a Q&A session with someone ready to answer potentially difficult questions from the audience :-)
2014-03-31 11:38 GMT+02:00 Cristian Consonni kikkocristian@gmail.com:
Hi all,
I am probably missing some page somewhere but I would really like to know if there is adescription of the different formats for the presentations/submission, i.e. discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop.
In particular, what is the "hot seat" format? (besides that being August in London it will probably be "muggy seat" =P)
Thanks,
Cristian
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2014-03-31 14:34 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com:
I guess it is just a Q&A session with someone ready to answer potentially difficult questions from the audience :-)
Ok Tomasz, thanks!
C
Cristian Consonni, 31/03/2014 11:38:
description of the different formats for the presentations/submission, i.e. discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop.
Iolanda made https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/Sessions ;)
In particular, what is the "hot seat" format?
Maybe Polimerek could also document the answer on wiki. ;)
Nemo
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