Hello all, Thank you for a great interactive meeting last week! It was half new people and half long-term PLUG participants and everyone had great questions about giving talks and attending conferences.
In an effort to making a conference warrior out of each of you, I would like to experiment with a "CFP" or Call for Participation/Papers model as is used by most conferences. PLUG will continue to have "invited talks" but I know you each have a fascinating talk up your sleeve. Submissions should include: A 50 to 300 word description/abstract of the talk Optional speaker(s) bio(s) Optional slides to be posted at pdxlinux.org Optional handouts Optional extended abstract and full academic paper Your availability (1st Thursday or 3rd Tuesday and month) Yes, some conferences require all of these but PLUG is about as flexible as it gets. I think we've had everything short of extended abstracts and papers. What is an academic paper? I consider it a formal historic snapshot of a project you are working on that clearly communicates what you set out to do and what you achieved. Tweets and blog posts are nice but it is very rewarding to establish a point of reference that with luck, will be referred to for decades. One such point of reference is Popek and Goldberg's definitive paper on Virtualization from 1974: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall14/CSCI-GA.3033-010/popek-goldberg.pdf As a bonus I and perhaps other PLUG members will gladly help you flesh out ideas for talks. Any topic can be interesting if addressed from the right perspective and at the right depth. We want to hear about your unique experiences relating to a given subject. Yes, you are the local or possibly world expert on something and it's just a question of determining what that something is. If it is of interest to you, it certainly is of interest to someone else. Send your talk proposals to me at dex...@ambidexter.com or to the list CC'ing me for peer review and ideas. I look forward to your submissions! Next slot: December Advanced Topics, Tuesday the 16th Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
