[ncc-services-wg] Feature request: publishing abstracts for accepted submissions for the RIPE events

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?
>
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