On Tuesday 21 July 2009 15:03:25 Hisham wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Michael Homer<mich...@gobolinux.org> wrote: > > The abstract is due this coming Friday, though I intend to submit it a > > few days before. Here's a draft(-ish) for that, and also for the paper > > itself if it's accepted. It needs some cleaning up still. > > > > It will need a lot of fleshing out to be the paper, and a lot of trimming > > down to be the abstract (it's about twice as long as it should be for > > that now), but I'd like some feedback that, firstly, I'm on the right > > track in everything I describe there, and secondly on which parts you > > think should be kept or cut for the abstract. I've tried to include at > > least a mention of everything that would appear in the paper, but much of > > it is either too detailed for or probably doesn't belong at all in the > > abstract. > > > > So please do give that feedback. Include anything you think I've missed > > out too. There is a hacky proof-of-concept patch for LuaRocks integration > > in dependency resolution at > > http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/aliens-poc.patch - against trunk, from a > > week ago but should still apply. > > I really liked it. How long is the abstract supposed to be, is there a > word/character limit? 500 words. It's about twice that now. > In terms of actual information, I think everything is there. The only > observation I have is that the two parts ("Background" and "Aliens") > are not really linked, especially since Aliens is presented as a > distro-agnostic solution -- with very little change, each of them > could be a whole abstract for two different talks. :) To an extent, yeah. The background informs the design, so I'd like to mention it, but I think the really interesting part is the Aliens side of things. I will err in that direction in cutting it down.
Alternatively, someone can come visit and present the other paper. -Michael
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