Workshops
Chair: Bill Opdyke, North Central College, workshops@oopsla.org
- Overview
- Important dates
- Submission process
- Submission guidelines
- Proposal review and acceptance
- For more information
Overview
OOPSLA workshops provide intensive collaborative environments whereobject technologists meet to surface, discuss, and solve challengingproblems facing the field.
The topics covered by workshops are diverse, as are the workshop'sformats. For example, a workshop may provide the opportunity for peopleworking in a particular area to coordinate efforts and to establishcollective plans of action, to collectively work on a book, or todiscuss and share ideas on a hot new emerging technology.
Workshops are either FULL or HALF-DAY events that occur on the firsttwo days before the conference. To ensure a sufficiently small groupfor effective interaction, workshop organizers manage attendance basedon objective criteria - typically they request a short position papersubmitted by potential attendees. Other criteria are permitted as longas they are clearly specified in the workshop's call for participation.The workshop organizers are responsible for advertising their workshopin appropriate places to attract attendees.
We encourage proposals for innovative, well-focused workshops on abroad spectrum of topics. We particularly encourage proposals forworkshops with novel, highly interactive formats that fall outside theconventional workshop format e.g. simulations or think tanks. Possibletopic areas include:
- Development methods & processes
- Languages
- Technologies
- Persistence
- Design
- Programming
- Testing
- Agile methods
- Web services
- Team or cultural issues
- Education issues
- Organizational innovation
NOTE that each workshop must have at least TWO organizers,preferably from different organizations. Preference will be shown toworkshops with multiple organizers. Workshop organizers andparticipants have to register for the conference and workshops.
In addition, we expect organizers of an accepted workshop tomaintain a web site as an expeditious way to make participant papers,workshop schedule, etc. available to participants; to help advertisethe workshop; and, after the workshop, to serve as a primary vehicle todisseminate information about the workshop and its conclusions to thewider object-oriented community.
Important Dates
Submissions due: March 18, 2005 (but earlier is better)
Notification of acceptance or rejection: May 20 2005
This call for participation is for workshop organizers; a later callwill occur for workshop attendees
Submission Process
Electronic submission of proposals is required through the OOPSLA submission system. Other submissions will not be accepted.
You will receive confirmation by email that your proposal has been received and is complete. Proposals may be modified online up until the March 18 2005 deadline.
Submission Guidelines
A workshop proposal is expected to include the followinginformation:
The workshop's main theme and goals
The proposal must explain the importance of the theme for objecttechnology, and why it is appropriate for the OOPSLA conference. Goalsshould be clearly stated, e.g. the main goal may be to buildcollaborations for future research, to identify key obstacles to theadoption of a particular technology, to pool experience in a particulararea, and so on. In addition, a 150 word abstract that describes thetheme and goals of the workshop should be included. If the workshop isaccepted, this abstract will be published in the advance and finalprogram.
Organizing committee
The organizing committee is responsible for advertising theworkshop, reviewing potential participants, running the workshop andcollating the results of the workshop for dissemination to others.Members of the committee should be listed, together with their contactinformation. The chair of the committee and a primary contact for theworkshop organization should be identified (they need not necessarilybe the same person). For each committee member, the proposal shouldidentify their responsibilities for this workshop and their background(expertise in the area, previous experience of running workshops, whythey will be an excellent workshop organizer)
Previous related workshops
Highlight any previous workshops on the same or related themes,stating where and when they took place. In particular explain how thisworkshop builds upon this previous activity.
Expected number of participants
The ideal, minimum and maximum number of participants should bespecified.
Workshop preparation
Workshop participants will be expected to prepare for the workshop,e.g. by reading others' position statements, or other backgroundmaterial. Your proposal should show how you plan to encourageparticipants to prepare appropriately, and how you will makepreparation materials available. For example, reading material andactivities could be posted to the workshop web site. In this case, theproposal should explain what materials will be available and when.
Workshop activities and format
The format of the workshop should be described and the timetablegiven, together with approximate timings. Please state clearly if afull-day or a half-day workshop is proposed. You should consider, forexample, who will present papers and for how long, whether there willbe any introductory material, any panel discussion, debate, or focusgroup, how such groups will report back to the other participants, andso on.
Post-workshop activities
Your proposal should describe how the results of the workshop willbe disseminated to the wider community. For example what output will beput on the web page, will summaries of discussions, key issues, andshared research agendas be published, and so on. One output could be aposter which can then be displayed during the conference postersession.
Special requirements
Please specify any special requirements. NOTE: There will be no dataprojectors available for Workshops, however, you are free to bring your own data projector.
Proposal Review and Acceptance
The proposals received will be reviewed by the Workshop Committee todetermine a high quality and appropriate mix for the conference.Proposals will be reviewed against the following criteria:
Significance
Does the proposal present a compelling case for the importance ofthe topic area? Is this done succinctly and completely? Are the goalsrelated clearly and appropriately to the topic area?
Relevance
Are the themes and goals of current interest to the object-orientedcommunity? Has the topic been covered before? Is there anything newbeing discussed? In particular, is the topic likely to be attractive toOOPSLA attendees?
Workshop format
Is the format clearly described and does it encourage a high levelof interaction between the participants?
Appropriateness
Is a workshop the right venue to address the theme and goals or doesthe proposal fit better into another type of OOPSLA event?
Organizers
Are there at least two organizers and do they represent a reasonablyvaried cross-section of the community? Has the requisite backgroundknowledge and experience of the organizers been established?
Completeness
Does the proposal cover all the information specified in theguidelines stated above
For More Information
For additional information, clarification, or questions please feelfree to contact the Workshops Chair, BIll Opdyke, at workshops@oopsla.org
