[ncc-services-wg] Feature request: publishing abstracts for accepted submissions for the RIPE events
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Michael J. Oghia
mike.oghia at gmail.com
Tue May 8 10:06:38 CEST 2018
Hi Artyom, I'm not sure why this thread hasn't gained any traction yet, but I think it's a good idea. I'm CCing Gergana from RIPE NCC External Relations so she can pass the suggestion along as well. Best, -Michael On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Artyom Gavrichenkov <ximaera at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > During a call for papers for each meeting organized by RIPE NCC, a speaker > is expected to provide an abstract for each submission of a plenary talk. > These abstracts are then evaluated by the corresponding programme > committee. They serve a purpose of providing an outline of the > presentation, key points and topics covered in the talk. > > E.g. sometimes the title of a submission isn't in any way self-explanatory, > but the abstract helps the programme committee members to quickly get an > idea of what's going to be presented and whether it is relevant to the > interests of the community. > > However, these abstracts are not published together with the agenda, they > aren't even available in the mailing list -- though even that would be sort > of suboptimal in my opinion, but anyway -- they're just getting lost > forever. > > I believe it would be much appreciated by the audience if those abstracts > for accepted submissions are published on the Web site of a meeting > together with plenary agenda. A title itself often doesn't tell the > audience a lot about the content of the talk, while an abstract certainly > does. Say, once we had a submission for the ENOG meeting -- accepted later > for no less than an opening plenary session -- called "Operating a secure > network" -- go figure! > > NANOG meetings, APRICOT and other conferences do maintain a policy of > publishing this ahead of an event, along with the agenda. Maybe there's a > solid reason why NCC avoids doing that? I don't know, but I'll be glad to > figure out. > > Any opinions on this one? > > | Artyom Gavrichenkov > | gpg: 2deb 97b1 0a3c 151d b67f 1ee5 00e7 94bc 4d08 9191 > | mailto: ximaera at gmail.com > | fb: ximaera > | telegram: xima_era > | skype: xima_era > | tel. no: +7 916 515 49 58 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ncc-services-wg/attachments/20180508/7ed5ce05/attachment.html>
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