I always liked Kent Beck's patterns for a successful oopsla submission, 
especially "one startling sentence":

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/HowToGetaPaperAcceptedToOOPSLA/HowToGetAPaperAcceptedToOOPSLA.htm

This was from a time that oopsla was big and important. It was also a 
conference that actively sought industry collaboration. Notice that all of the 
panelists were from industry.


On Nov 7, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Manuel Palomo Duarte wrote:

> I agree with Kerry, unaffiliated are unusual, but I've never heard of them 
> been discriminated in any way when publishing ...
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> 2012/11/7 Kerry Raymond <[email protected]>
> I am not an unaffiliated researcher (but I guess I might be after my imminent 
> retirement). But having been involved in editorial boards and conference 
> programme committees etc, I have never been aware of any restriction on 
> unaffiliated researchers publishing research. I would say though that it is 
> fairly unusual to receive papers from unaffiliated authors and I think the 
> couple of times I have encountered the situation the papers were very poor 
> quality. But they were reviewed in the normal way and rejected on their 
> merits. But had the papers been of better quality, then I presume they would 
> have been accepted. On what basis could a reviewer or editor legitimately 
> discriminate against unaffiliated authors?
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> Kerry
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> Hi all;
> 
> I wonder if there are unaffiliated researchers in this mailing list. I know 
> that publishing without affiliation is a bit hard, so I would like to talk 
> with them and learn from their experience.
> 
> Regards,
> emijrp
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