-) 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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