| 07:08:58 | FrankW: | I'm a day late for the meeting, aren't I? |
| 07:09:01 | : | * FrankW sighs. |
| 07:09:11 | FrankW: | I have a terrible track record for making these meetings. |
| 07:15:14 | lmaurer: | Hello Frank => I just have a question concerning the conference book => is it still ok with you wife for the editorial ? |
| 07:16:03 | FrankW: | yes, she agreed to my volunteering of her. |
| 07:16:10 | FrankW: | When will there be something for her to look at? |
| 07:17:18 | lmaurer: | what do you need ? |
| 07:18:31 | FrankW: | The task is mostly spelling/grammar/understandability cleanup on the document, is that right? |
| 07:18:39 | FrankW: | Or have I miscontrued the task? |
| 07:18:54 | lmaurer: | I think there is a missunderstandin :- ) |
| 07:19:06 | FrankW: | Ah, perhaps you can explain? |
| 07:19:44 | lmaurer: | We need somebody who will write the editorial and not only cleanup... |
| 07:20:03 | lmaurer: | do you think somebody could help us ? |
| 07:20:28 | FrankW: | Ah, she doesn't know the domain area that well, so she wouldn't be a good choice to write an editorial. |
| 07:20:47 | lmaurer: | But we will need also cleanup for the all document... if she is also volunteer for that ? |
| 07:21:07 | FrankW: | Yes, she would be happy to do "copy editing" sort of work. This she is good at. |
| 07:21:11 | lmaurer: | Do you think the president of the OSGeo could write this editorisl :- ) |
| 07:21:15 | FrankW: | What exactly is the purpose of the editorial? |
| 07:22:58 | lmaurer: | Just to introduce the conference book, to explain the big transformations of the FOSS4G world this few months and to welcome readers => ... |
| 07:23:23 | FrankW: | OK, I think I could do that. |
| 07:23:25 | lmaurer: | it should not be a presentation of the OSGeo ( it will be included into an other page ) |
| 07:23:33 | FrankW: | Should it also be thanking conference organizers and such? |
| 07:23:49 | lmaurer: | It could !!!! ;- ) |
| 07:23:56 | lmaurer: | MANY THANKS FOR YOU HELP !!! |
| 07:24:00 | FrankW: | It seems a conference book should have a note from the lead organizer giving credits for the work on the conference. |
| 07:24:57 | lmaurer: | You right, we will include it => we will add a "thanks" part... |
| 07:25:03 | FrankW: | ok. |
| 07:25:34 | FrankW: | In that case, I'd be willing to do an editorial that is somewhat general about the foss4g world, and the past year. |
| 07:25:51 | pona: | that is exaclty what we need |
| 07:25:55 | FrankW: | How long should it be? |
| 07:25:59 | lmaurer: | +1 |
| 07:26:06 | FrankW: | I imagine it will share some content from my keynote. |
| 07:26:08 | lmaurer: | 1 A4 page |
| 07:26:14 | lmaurer: | no problem... |
| 07:26:57 | pona: | actually it would bi good to make a little history from the fisrt mum with 90 attendees to foss4g2006 with 450 and cross communities |
| 07:27:06 | FrankW: | any idea of a word count for one a4 page? |
| 07:27:28 | lmaurer: | I just count it .... |
| 07:27:41 | FrankW: | my problem, is that I haven't been nearly as involved in the conference activities as many. |
| 07:29:09 | FrankW: | OK. I will try to produce a first draft of such an editorial by Monday. |
| 07:29:31 | FrankW: | I think I will need some feedback on it. :- ) |
| 07:29:40 | lmaurer: | About 350-400 words and 2500 caracters |
| 07:30:04 | FrankW: | OK, that seems managable. |
| 07:30:11 | lmaurer: | Monday is fine, thanks |
| 07:31:56 | FrankW: | Phew, I see I'm supposed to produce a half page abstract for my keynote. I'd better get on that too right away. |
| 07:32:59 | FrankW: | Has Gary sent his in? |
| 07:33:13 | FrankW: | I was wanting to talk to him to coordinate so our keynotes don't overlap too much. |
| 07:35:22 | pona: | we haven't ogt something from gary yet. deadline is tomorrow |
| 07:37:05 | jmckenna: | FrankW: i'll modify the sol katz 2005 program text now and send it to the award committee for review... ( yesterday i asked here if we could include text for the award in program ) |
| 07:41:40 | FrankW: | jmckenna: cool, thanks. |
| 07:57:24 | FrankW: | The week after the presentation submissions closed, I sent an email asking for a presentation called "FDO: Street Vendors in the Cathedral". |
| 07:57:30 | FrankW: | But I don't see it in the system. |
| 07:57:44 | FrankW: | How can I search for it? Is it too late to include it now, if it was missed? |
| 09:42:04 | FrankW: | Are any of the keynote abstracts in? I'm not sure what is appropriate for this sort of thing. |
| 09:42:27 | FrankW: | Normally in my abstracts ( which tend to be very brief ), I just list the major topics I'll be talking about. |
| 09:42:39 | FrankW: | But a half page abstract seems like it will require more than that. |