Dear Raouf (and others),
Looking at the IFIP Web page, I cannot find any information or link to the IM conference. Although the conference will take place only in 2007, the deadline for paper submission is September 1st, 2006. Consequently, this is the most important time for the conference to be advertised within IFIP calendar of events, Web page, News, email blasts and any other useful marketing tools.
I have provided all information about IM 2007 conference and this information has been already included in TC6 calendar of events and was included in the TC6 meeting documents.
What is the process to make sure that our events are properly advertised by IFIP in a timely manner? Should we (WG chair or the organizer?) explicitly ask the Webmaster to do so for each event?
My suggestion is that the WG chairpersons send their announcements immediately to the Webmaster Herbert Leitold Herbert.Leitold@a-sit.at. Herbert has (unfortunately) indicated that he will have to step down as webmaster rather soon due to other commitments but that he will be able to serve for a little while. We wil have to find a new solution. In order to make life easier for Herbert your informations to him and to myself should be in a standardised format such as in the following example (pure ASCII please):
----- Conference: 6th IFIP conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Government. WG 6.11 + TC 8 + TC11. 11 - 13 October 2006; Turku, Finland; Email contact: Reima.Suomi@tukkk.fi URL: http://www.tukkk.fi/i3e/home.html -----
Best regards Otto