Call for Tutorials

We invite proposals for tutorials, to be held on the first day of the conference, June 23, 2009. All tutorials will be half-day events. We encourage submitters to contact us before the deadline if there are any concerns about overlap with other similar tutorial topics.

Proposal content:

The proposals to organize a tutorial should be no more than 2 pages in length and should contain the following information:

• A brief description of the tutorial, including goals, a detailed outline, justification of why the tutorial is important, background knowledge required and potential attendees.
• A brief description of why and to whom the tutorial is of interest.
• A brief description of the proposed tutorial format.
• Description of hands-on activities (if any), plug-ins and other software needed for running hands-on activities, procedures and technical requirements to enable participants to install and run necessary software on their computers. The software needed for running hands-on activities must be provided by the tutorial speakers.
• The names and contact information (Web page, email address) of the proposed organizers and short description of their relevant experience.

The tutorial organizers will be responsible for:

• Preparing materials for tutorial participants to download by May 22, 2009.

The Protégé Conference Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following:

• Providing publicity for the tutorial series as a whole on the conference's web page.
• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial.

Important dates:
Submission deadline: March 2, 2009
Notification of tutorial acceptance: March 16, 2009
Tutorial materials due: May 22, 2009
Tutorial: June 23, 2009

Submission instructions:
Please send your submissions in PDF or ASCII to protege-conf-organizers at lists.stanford.edu