[EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/11/04 16:50:
> Rick, > > I believe the SDL Forum event 20-24 June 2005 in Norway is an outstanding > opportunity for SG 17 to leverage to get our message out and, in particular, > to attract additional participants to the language work of SG 17. I would > appreciate your insights and help in defining what we could do. This is too > good of an opportunity to miss but we need to do planning now and not wait > until the first meeting of SG 17. > > Herb Dear Herb, I support this proposal. The main issue will be scheduling meeting days. The last few Forums have been 4 day events - one day of tutorials and three conference days. This is partly because we have never opted for parallel sessions on the conference days (except for a few workshop sessions). The current proposal is to have tutorials on Monday, the papers sessions Tuesday to Thursday, and keep Friday for "workshops". There has been a tendency in the past few years for European projects to hold workshops or project meetings co-ordinated with such events. It seems to me the possibilities are to hold SG17 expert or WP meetings in either before or after the SDL Forum. If the meetings are held after the Forum, there would also be the chance to use the Friday. Co-ordinating the ITU-T SG17 languages meetings and SDL Forum should lead to greater participation in both, and the SDL Forum Society would be grateful of the extra publicity. I have not yet approached the ITU-T Director, but (as the SDL Forum Society chairman) I would like to be able to cite the ITU-T as a supporter of the SDL Forum event and use the ITU-T logo on publicity. Would that have to be agreed at SG level? The call for papers is out now. The deadline for submission of papers is 7th Feb 2005 with notification to authors 21 Feb 2005. These dates fit perfectly with the ITU-T SG17 meeting in February, so that if we schedule a programme committee meeting for the SDL2005 to be held in Geneva at ITU-T, this may encourage one or two more people to travel to Geneva. However, we would also have to allow people to participate in the meeting by teleconference. This was done at ITU-T under SG10 for SDL2001 (and also at ETSI for SDL2003) and it worked well. The main business of the meeting will be the selection of papers and planning the conference programme and obviously the co-ordination with languages meetings can be considered. My experience is that we need at least half a day for such meetings, even though a lot of pre-selection can be done beforehand. One possible issue is whether the chair for the conference (Andreas Prinz) will be able to travel to Geneva for the meeting. As a side issue it may also be convenient to hold a General Meeting of the SDL Forum Society in Geneva to complete some unfinished business from the last Annual General Meeting (June 2004) such as updating the Constitution of the SDL Forum Society (for example, this still refers to ITU-T SG10). Essentially this meeting would be to take a formal vote and would not have to be very long, but needs to be announced 6 weeks in advance. Please note that we already have Georges Sebek on the committee for the event. -- Rick Reed - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+44 15394 88462 Mob.:+44 7970 50 96 50 _______________________________________________ ASN1 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.asn1.org/mailman/listinfo/asn1
