[osdevcon-discuss] osdevcon questions

[Wolfgang Stief]

Hi all!

Time for me to jump in and clarify some things, I think.

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:59:25 +0100
"max at bruningsystems.com" <max at bruningsystems.com> wrote:
> >> (Actually, when I look at what was done last year, it looks like 
> >> everyone had slides.  Does this mean no one submitted a paper?).
> >
> > nope, see here:
> > http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/further_readings.html
>
> So, there is no problem with submitting a paper and slides or
> tutorial, but no one submitted a paper before. I guess I don't go to
> many conferences...  I thought a "call for papers" was, well... a
> call for papers.  Slides are nice, but often don't give enough
> information...

Communication mismatch. Same as this year, we also asked last year for
submitting papers, which people did. We printed all those papers into
the conference proceedings, which we handed out to all of the attendees
of the conference.

For doing the presentation at a conference, showing some slides on the
wall probably is the better choice than reading out of 10++ pages of
scientific prose. The papers in the proceedings are more for the people
to review the material at home or to read also about topics, where they
missed the talk.

To give back at least something to the community, we decided to ask the
speakers for their presentations and put them on line for everybody out
there. This is the URL Dirk already mentioned.

One could ask, why we didn't also publish the papers of the entire
conference proceedings as well. Well... there were different thoughts
and discussions about this inside the organiser team, which ended up at
a point where we decided to handle this the same way, we do it with
other Unix/Linux related conferences we organise throughout Germany as
well. There is of course no need to handle this the same at this years
conference, though.

Max, I totally agree with you on the information density on slides.
That's actually one reason, why we also ask for papers and publish them.

> > It's still under discussion whether the papers will be purely
> > digital or printed. (I prefer the latter one, it gives people
> > something into their hands and it fits better into the context.)
>
> Why not both?

As I explained: Due to historical reasons, last year we only published
the papers on paper. We're thinking about some other --
additional -- possibilities for this year.

> > [...format...]
> > You should do that immediately, it saves work later on.
> > We intend to publish style templates soon for both TeX and
> > OpenOffice. (@Wolfgang: can we fix the ones we have?)
> 
> I'm waiting...

We have a brand new OOo template as well as a LaTeX style file, which
we created for our annual German Unix sysadmin conference (which
apparently takes place next week in Munich). Both, OOo template and
LaTeX style file have bugs. Right after the conference, we will start
debugging (mostly issues with page margins and fonts).


wolfgang

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