[evaal contest] workshop organization @ AAL Forum

[Pedro Jose Marron]

Dear Stefano,

I am very surprised by your e-mail and the way the EvAAL competition is
being included in the event in Sweden.

First, there was no information about having to pay a full registration fee
(this was not the case last year), without the possibility to get the
early-bird registration rate or any kind of student rate. Now, the
presentation of the system is being "downgraded" to a poster session
instead of a full-day workshop with scientific presentations.

In the interest of keeping the level of participation in further
competitions, I would like to ask you to reconsider the possibility to (at
least) be able to get the early-bird registration fee and to organize the
workshop in such a way that, if there are posters, they are allowed to be
in a visible place throughout the conference (not just on Tuesday) and use
the time slot on Tuesday for presentations of the systems.

Looking forward to your feedback on these two requests.

Regards,

Pedro



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Stefano Chessa <chessa at isti.cnr.it> wrote:

> Dear Competitors,
>
> As anticipated by Francesco Potortì, the workshop will be on Tuesday 24th,
> at 13:30-17:00.
> As the time is too short to have long presentations for each paper, we
> decided to organize the workshop as a poster session. The idea is to leave
> a strict slot of 3 minutes to each participant to advertise his/her work,
> and leave deeper discussions among participants during the poster session.
> To reduce the burden of preparation and transport of the posters, we
> suggest to prepare the posters in A2 format (this is not mandatory anyway).
>
> The program of the workshop will be:
> - opening (10 minutes),
> - short oral introduction to posters (strictly 3 minutes each person, up
> to 40 minutes in total)
> - Poster session (1,5 hour)
> - summary of results (20 minutes)
> - open discussion (40 minutes)
> - closing (10 minutes)
>
>
> Finally, I kindly ask each team to send me an email with the following
> information about the person that will present the work at the workshop:
>
> - team name
> - participant name
> - cellular phone number (in order to solve any last minute issue in
> Norrköping).
>
>
> Thank you,
>         Stefano Chessa
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Contest [mailto:contest-bounces at evaal.aaloa.org] Per conto di
> Francesco Potortì
> Inviato: lunedì 2 settembre 2013 18:48
> A: contest at evaal.aaloa.org
> Oggetto: [evaal contest] preparing for the AAL Forum
>
> Dear EvAAL followers,
>
> for the third year EvAAL is collaborating with the AAL Forum: the EvAAL
> workshop and the EvAAL award ceremony will take place in Norrköping,
> Sweden, and you have only three weeks left to register to the AAL Forum and
> prepare your trip!
>
> We will have our workshop on Tuesday, 24 at 13:30, while the awards
> ceremony will be part of the final dinner on Thursday, 26.  Have a look at
> the AAL Forum web site at http://www.aalforum.eu/programme for details on
> the interesting program of the main yearly event on AAL in Europe.
>
> During the workshop the competitors of EvAAL 2013 are going to present the
> systems they used to compete.  The first three ranked in each track will
> receive a plate during the awarding ceremony, and we have very nice prizes
> provided by our sponsors.  Here is the complete list:
>
> 2 Metawatch Bluetooth Watch development system
> http://www.ti.com/tool/msp-wds430bt2000d
> 4 Chronos Watches eZ430 http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-chronos
> 6 USB Flash Drives http://ap.apacer.com/products/AH135
> 1 Xtion Pro Live http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO_LIVE/
> 3 Xtion Pro http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Xtion_PRO/
>
> Come and see who will get the prizes!
>
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