Dear all,
I used the miss term in my last e-mail. You can read again using WORKSHOP instead WORKING Conference. Sorry for the inconvenience. I´m still trying to understand the very complicate IFIP working mechanism.
As far as the response of Otto Spaniol:
Otto Spaniol escribió:
Dear Ana,
In the minutes you sent us, there is a miss regarding to the proposal I made about considering all the events organized by WG 6.9 (under its main aim) as Working Conferences in order to reduce the sponsorship fee for IFIP.
The structure of the event is not determined beforehand by the name of the working group but by the content and by the size of the event.
Typically the smallest is a WORKSHOP (up to 50 participants; by personal invitation, not always a publication, no sponsorship fee at all).
Secondly we have a WORKING CONFERENCE (up to 150 participants; reviewed manuscripts, sponsorship fee to IFIP 5 EURO per full paying participant per day).
And then we have a CONFERENCE or even a SYMPOSIUM (10 EURO per participant per day as sponsorship fee to IFIP).
I would like to thank you for helping to clarify the ideas. Also thanks to Guy for the same reason.
In the case of WG 6.9 we can always discuss about the structure, even about the requested sponsorship fee. To divert all the events beforehand as being a workshop or a working conference would not be the best idea (to my opinion). There might be events in developing countries which could have 500 participants, this could happen e.g. in India. To name such an event a workshop would not be correct.
You are right about the different situations, but it was not discuss during the meeting.
I made this proposal during the report of WG 6.9.
Everybody agreed with the proposal and Guy Leduc added that there is no fee in the case of Working Conferences.
This must be a misinterpretation (see above). For a working conference a sponsorship fee is requested.
I propose that we discuss the WG 6.9 events on a case by case basis with a tendency of naming them workshops or working conferences (or with a special agreement for reduced sponsorship fee).
This is a new proposal completly different to mine. It is a pity that the minutes is not very precise!
Br
Ana
Best regards Otto
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