Workshop Reader

Like announced in the previous status report, Springer-Verlag accepted our proposal for publishing the next ECOOP Workshop Reader. And via the ECOOP conference registration, we already collected about a 100 pre-orders.

Also, most of the workshops confirmed to me that they will participate in the workshop reader project (I am still awaiting confirmation from W6, W7 and W8 though). Thus we can now say for sure that the Workshop Reader will again be published this ECOOP.

Reviewing the kind of e-mail questions I got concerning the workshop reader there are 2 main issues that need to be resolved right now. (-- Note that I will try to organise a bird-of-a-feather session during the ECOOP so that we can discuss some details face to face--)

1. Electronic format

   The format for the final versions of the chapters should correspond with the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) format of Springer-Verlag. You can find all necessary information concerning this at
   http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/

   Whenever your workshop participants ask for information concerning camera ready copy formats, point them to the "Author Guidelines" at
   http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

2. Size

   Quite a lot of workshop organizers are worried how many pages they will have at their disposal. Some of you even tried to bribe me into getting a lot of pages ;)

   To answer this question, a straightforward calculation is sufficient. The absolute maximum for the reader is 600 pages. Subtracting 20 pages for table of contents etc. there are 580 pages available. Assuming that all workshops participate, there are 18 workshop chapters + 1 chapter on demos + 1 on posters = 20 chapters.

   Thus 580 pages divided by 20 chapters
   ==> On average this results in 29 pages per workshop.

   I will adjust the number of pages depending on the number of position papers for each workshop. Still you should plan on a pagecount per chapter in the order of magnitude of 30 pages. Which is quite different from 50 - 80 like some people have requested.

   This implies that there are basically 3 scenario's for putting a chapter together. (a) Either you select "the best" 2 position papers out of the submitted ones; (b) or you force all authors to condense their position papers into 2 pages; (c) or you write one summary report describing the result of the workshop.