8 Nov
2023
8 Nov
'23
8:38 p.m.
Thank you Mieke!
On 08/11/2023 15:57, Mieke Massink wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you for your quick and mostly positive reactions. I'll relay
your response to Ilaria and Francesco.
@Michele, Rocco, Mirko, Simon: Indeed the members of the SC and the PC
are strongly invited to contribute with the submission of a paper to
Coordination and/or DisCoTec next year. I'll refer this also to Ilaria
and Francesco so they can add this in their message to the invitation
for PC members. Of course, all of us should also sollicit other people
in the community to submit too.
@Simon: I'll send your explanation on the tolerance of 10% of the
paper length at the time of submission. I would make it subject to
asking motivated permission to the PC Chairs so that the latter are
made aware of the situation.
I do not want to insist and would be fine with just keeping the
classical approach of a 15-page limit. However, */if/* we do go the way
I am suggesting, it is counterproductive to put additional constraints
on the process.
To simplify — although I bet more people might recognise themselves than
would be willing to admit it — imagine it's two hours to the deadline
and you've already spent the night polishing the paper. It is now
perfectly clear but is 16 pages long. What do you do?
1) cut out the examples to fit into 15 pages
2) write an e-mail to the PC chairs and hope that they see it in time
3) submit and go rest because COORDINATION is a cool conference and the
PC understands that clarity is more important than page count
I vote for 3.
Cheers,
Simon
I'm aware of the fact that not all members of the
SC can be part of
the PC. In the future, some form of rotation could be useful in this
respect.
All the best,
Mieke