Sometimes cheap means really cheap papers. Why not go into chat rooms subscribe, enter into chat sessions on papers and then publish if that is the objective of the authors. Conferences are paid for because they require a) resources (hired venues, meals, coffee, proceedings, etc) b) review of papers which takes a lot of efforts and time c) publication of conference proceedings - costs associated with this. d) training of post graduate students on how to run and manage workshops e) listening to experts in the specific feilds and interact with them one on one.
But besides these, face to face conferences permit normal networking between researchers, industry and students which will mostly be lost in online conferences. The real benefits from conferences are not just the presentation of the power point slides but the ability to interact with other researchers, gather new ideas on your line of research, form new partnerships and expand your sphere of influence. Obviously you can tell by now that I do not support the idea. There are already too many uncited papers because they contain nothing to cite. Just like fast food, we are seeking to reduce technical excellence to fast food syndrome. Johnson Quoting Emmanuel Lochin <[email protected]>: > On 4 November 2011 14:50, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Emmanuel Lochin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 4 November 2011 14:40, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi Emmanuel, >>> > >>> > I don't understand. We say nothing against conferences although they are >>> > obviously too expensive. >>> >>> Sorry Pars but you wrote : "Scientific conferences cost too much to >>> the world ($500-1000 USD for registration not counting travel and >>> hotel), are harmful to the planet (too much traveling) and not always >>> useful" >>> This is a strong statement isn't it ? >> >> Yes it is strong and it is true. > > I believe this is a simplistic and narrow vision and this argument is > obviously against conferences. Anyway ... as already said, "just do > it". > > Regards > > EL > >> (btw, where is the rest of the sentence? :-)) >> >> signers >> >>> >>> EL >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally >>> privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, >>> use >>> or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended >>> recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both >>> messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, >>> data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised >>> amendment. This notice should not be removed" >> >> > > > > -- > "This email and any attachments are confidential. They may contain legally > privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use > or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an intended > recipient, please contact us at once by return email and then delete both > messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, > data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorised access or unauthorised > amendment. This notice should not be removed" > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
