[governance] Africa Conference on FOSS and the Digital Commons - Idlelo 3. Call for Papers

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** High Priority **

Call for Papers
Paper submissions are invited for Idlelo3 Conference, which will be
 taking place on the 16-20 March , 2008 in Senegal. Delegates who wish to
 present papers, case studies and workshops  are invited to access this
 link: http://floss.meraka.org.za/ocs/index.php/idlelo3/idlelo3 which
 will serve as a guidelines for submission 


Deadline Schedule
Abstract Submission 
15 October 2007
Peer Review Result
15 November 2007
Abstract Accepted
14 December 2007
Final Paper
15February 2008

Instructions for Presenters

Presentation materials must accompany all papers. The presentation
 material should compliment your full paper. Failure to submit a full paper
 will result in speaker benefits being withdrawn.

Speaker Benefits
All Idlelo 3 speakers have their conference registration fee waived.
 Note that it is important that you get your papers in by the due dates we
 reserve the right to withdraw the free registration if you do not get
 it in on time. If you are having problems meeting the deadlines, please
 let us know as soon as possible so that we can work with you to figure
 it out. If you are a student, please make sure that we know it. We may
 offer prize(s) for the best student paper submitted.

Submission Guidelines
Proposals
Your proposal must include:
Name, affiliation and address of principle author
Brief biographical note, which summarises your CV and explains
 relevance of your experiences to the topic of your Paper. 
Full title of the Paper
Abstract of the Paper, including a description of what you expect to
 cover (Maximum length 250 words)
Target Audience, namely, who your talk is likely to interest (keywords
 indicating categories)
Preferred stream for presentation
Names and bio information of any co-authors

Proposals acceptance
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by the 14
 December 2007. Whilst we encourage many proposals, the constraints of
 time, resources and space dictate that only a restricted number of
 proposals will be accepted for presentation. We suggest that you
 communicate any information regarding your individual local requirements with
 them as soon as possible to ensure a swift response. 

Paper Submission
All presenters are required to submit presentation materials by the
 specified date. Failure to do so may result in loss of your speaking slot
 and speaker benefits.  Your  full paper should include an abstract,
 introduction, body and conclusion. Please ensure that  grammar and
 spelling  is corrected. Make sure your paper includes at the very least a
 brief introduction to your subject material and a list of further
 resources. We would prefer that papers for standard length talks (30 minutes) be
 no more than 5 A4 pages of 11point type with reasonable margins.
 Papers for long talks (60 minutes) should be not exceed 10 pages.
 Appropriate file formats include any file that can be read with Open Office
 (which includes plain text and HTML with minimal mark-up). Slides (even
 those accompanied by speaker notes) will not be printed in the proceedings.
 Please provide a good range of sample paper layouts. By submitting a
 paper to be published in the proceedings, you are agreeing to the FOSSFA
 terms and regulations.

Review results
All papers will be reviewed to ensure that papers are of a high
 quality. The purpose is not to identify spelling or grammatical errors or to
 test code snippets, although errors may be corrected during the review
 if found. It is recommended that the presenters should read their papers
 thoroughly before submitting. Once your paper has been reviewed, the
 presenters will receive their  results in order to make the requested
 improvements for the published version.

Proceedings version
A final copy of your paper will be printed in the conference
 proceedings.

Contact details
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Pumeza
 Ceza at pceza at csir.co.za or Vanessa Phala vanessap at dpsa.gov.za

Please note:

Submissions for the abstracts are strictly on the 15 November 2007
FOSSFA reserves the right to select papers for presentation.
Abstracts received will be acknowledged and notification of acceptance
 or rejection will be by email by 15 December 2007 
Abstracts of papers submitted to other congresses or previously
 published will not be considered.
 No more than three submissions are welcome per presenter
We urge presenters to please read the submission requirements carefully
 as we  expect a high volume of presentations


  
       
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