Re: 1st. draft for Call For Papers

Second draft...

Call For Papers *DRAFT*

Attention Speakers! We are very interested in hearing
about the following subjects at the 2004 Nordic Perl Workshop in
Copenhagen:

- Prototyping in Perl
- Development in and with Perl
- Testing using Perl
- Optimization of Perl
- Perl in general and Parrot/Perl 6
- Your Favorite Topic?
(systems administration / life science / web development)

We will accept various types of presentations:

- Lightning Talks (5-7 minutes)
- Standard Talks  (30-60 minutes)
- Panel Talks     (30-90 minutes)

BOFs are expected to appear where and when necessary during the
workshop, we will try to accommodate these as well If you want to attend
the workshop as a speaker please send a abstract of your talk (see the
submission section below for details).

Lightning Talks

Lightning talks are brief talks that focus on a single
example, idea, project, or technique. Lightning talks do not attempt to
cover all aspects of their subject matter, but rather to present a
facet of the idea clearly and succinctly. Lightning talks are an
excellent forum for first-time speakers. To submit a proposal for a
lightning talk, please send your proposed title and an abstract of up
to four sentences to: <[email protected]>. It is also possible
to hand in a proposal at the conference registration, but we prefer to
know of your talk in advance.

Standard Talks

A standard talk is the preferred format. This is enough
time to start a topic, introduce it with some pithy slides, and open up
to later conversation (a BOF?). To submit a proposal for a
talk/presentation, please send your proposed title and an abstract to:
<[email protected]>. Submissions are due by 15th of February
midnight (CET). Submitters will be notified by end-of-day 29th of
February whether their talks have been accepted. If your
proposal is accepted, you will be expected to confirm within 24 hours
that you will give the talk; otherwise, your slot may be given to
someone else.

Panel Talks

This is a new kind of talk, which we hope will enable us to get more
into depth with a subject. The concept is a talk where the speaker
acts more as a moderator. After giving a presentation on the
subject a discussion can commence. The speaker/moderator should
invite special "panel-members" and domain experts.

We evaluate submissions for Panel Talks very seriously because they
are on an experimental level. We might therefore ask the speaker to
have a standard talk instead, if we do not find that the subject or
the submission is no interesting enough to support a Panel Talk.

The speaker/moderator should list the names of the special invites in
the submission and is responsible for the invitations personally. We
will of course help out where and if we can.

Submission

Please submit abstracts/papers to <[email protected]> where
our program committee will review the submission. If you have
something which does not fit the formats listed please feel
free to contacts us anyway and we will evaluate it.

Workshop organizers reserve the right to change the length assigned to
a talk, if deemed necessary. If you want to speak on multiple topics,
please submit separate proposals for each one.

Please include the following with your abstract(s):

* A little information about yourself (and possibly an link to an image
of your choosing - preferably yourself).

* An indication of preferred language and possible languages the
presentation can be given in.

* An indication of the length of the presentation.

* A listing of any requirements you might have for doing your
presentation, and we will try to accommodate your request. Projectors
will be available for all talks.

If possible, please include your slide/paper ready for online publishing,
in one of the following file formats:

- plain text
- HTML
- PDF

The files are also accepted just after an ended talk, so we can
include any last minute modifications.

We take the liberty of filming presentations. If you are not interested
in being filmed during your presentation, please let us know in
advance.

Fee (does not apply for lightning talk speakers)

We cannot offer much, but what we can offer is:

- Free admittance
- Lunch at the workshop
- A speakers dinner
- A chance to meet a lot of Perl people

If you have any special requests, which have to do with fee and
payment please contact us at <[email protected]>.

Thank you; we hope you will participate either as a speaker or as an
attendee.

If you have any questions at all, please done hesitate to contact us
<[email protected]>.

Important dates

15th February - Proposals due
29th February - Notification of acceptance
30th February - Final confirmation for accepted proposals
27th and 28th March - The 2004 Nordic Perl Workshop


-- 
Dennis
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