A member of this WG asked me yesterday whether I was about to launch
another Special Session at the upcoming CLOSER. Indeed, I have considered
and discarded this option, and the reasons are the following:
-) cost: the registration fee at CLOSER is high, and we do not have enough
return from such investment, since
-) we might as well publish our research elsewhere, maybe in higher impact
conferences/journals and
-) publishing to several distinct conferences/journals in open sessions
would finally improve OCCI outreach: as a matter of fact the audience of
the last Special Session was mostly made of WG members.
So, the past experience was fine but we might look for alternatives as
well, and I propose:
-) a no-fee un-conference on our own: we have a rather active meetup group
about Cloud Computing here in Trentino, and they would certainly
appreciate. But Pisa is fine too. This is what I can put on the plate;
-) run for a OCCI-specific workshop at a higher level conference (IEEE or
the like). But I do not see much improvement wrt CLOSER SS.
So that's it...
Bye to everybody and best wishes for a great 2017.
Augusto
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Augusto Ciuffoletti
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Pisa
56100 - Pisa (Italy)
