[Foundation-l] 2005 International Symposium on Wikis

[Erik Moeller]

FYI:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
 
2005 International Symposium on Wikis
Oct 17-18, 2005, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2005
http://www.wikisym.org <http://www.wikisym.org/>
 
 
 
OVERVIEW
 
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki 
researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the 
symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a 
rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for 
practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to 
announce that Ward Cunningham, the inventor and host of the original 
WikiWikiWeb, will present the opening keynote talk at WikiSym 2005. 
Anyone who is involved in using, researching, or developing wikis is 
invited to WikiSym 2005!
 
We are seeking submissions for
 
* research papers
* practitioner reports
* demonstrations
* workshops
* panels
 
Research paper and practitioner report submissions are due
 
April 29, 2005
 
Workshop, and panel submissions are due
 
April 8, 2005
 
Demonstration submissions are due
 
July 1, 2005
 
Topics of interest to the symposium include, but are not limited to:
 
* wikis as social software
* wiki user behavior, user dynamics
* wiki user experiences, usability
* wiki implementation experiences and technology
* wiki administration, processes, dealing with abuse
* wiki scalability, social and technical
* domain-specific/special-purpose wikis
 
 
 
SUBMISSION DETAILS
 
Research papers will be reviewed by the committee to meet rigorous 
academic standards of publication. Research papers are expected to 
advance the state of the art by describing substantiated new research or 
novel technical results or by reporting on significant experience or 
experimentation. They are reviewed both with respect to conceptual 
quality and clarity of presentation.
 
Accepted research papers will be provided as part of the conference 
proceedings. They will be put into the ACM Digital Library and can be 
referenced as papers that appeared in the /Proceedings of the 2005 
International Symposium on Wikis./ At the symposium, the presenter will 
be given a 25min + 5min Q&A presentation slot. Research papers should 
not be longer than 10000 words and should meet the ACM SIG Proceedings 
Format, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.
 
Practitioner reports will be reviewed for suitability of presentation to 
the community. The primary evaluation criterion is the interest to the 
community. Practitioner reports will be provided as part of the 
companion to the conference proceedings handed out at the symposium and 
can be referenced as papers that appeared in the /Companion to the 
Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Wikis./ Practitioner 
reports should not be longer than 6000 words and should meet the ACM SIG 
Proceedings Format.
 
Demonstration, workshop, and panel submissions will be reviewed for 
their interest to the community. Submit two pages of description of what 
you intend to do and how you meet this criterion. Please include a 
100-word abstract and one-paragraph bios of all people relevant to the 
submission. Demonstrations will get 45min slots in a booth of their own, 
workshops will get a half-day and a room of their own, and panels will 
get a 90min slot at the symposium.
 
Please submit your papers or proposals in PDF format (or postscript, if 
you must) by the respective deadline to submissions at wikisym.org.
 
 
 
SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS
 
The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis will be held at the Town and 
Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California, on Oct 17 and 
18, 2005. WikiSym 2005 will be co-located with the ACM OOPSLA 2005 
conference, and participants may register for the symposium alone, or 
may jointly register for OOPSLA 2005.
 
If you have any questions, please contact Dirk Riehle through 
chair at wikisym.org.
 
 
 
SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE
 
Dirk Riehle, Independent (chair)
 
Ward Cunningham, Microsoft
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthias Jugel, Fraunhofer FIRST
Helmut Leitner, HLS Software
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington
David Ornstein, Microsoft
Sebastien Paquet, National Research Council of Canada
Stephan Schmidt, Fraunhofer FIRST
Sunir Shah, University of  Toronto