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COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE CFP2008 Proposal SUBMISSIONS GUIDE
General Tutorials Plenary Sessions Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
All submissions must be made using the CFP2008 electronic
submission system. You may choose to email
your submission, in which case a destination address will
be provided after you fill out contact and other
basic information on the submission form. Submitters' contact
information will be used only for contact about submissions and
to send information about the CFP conference. Tutorial,
and plenary submissions must be received by January
24, 2008. BOF proposals must be submitted by April 30, 2008.
If you have an idea for a session or other activity but do not have
a complete session proposal, please use the "topic or activity" suggestion
form. If you would like to nominate a speaker, please use the "speaker" suggestion
form. The program committee will give preference to complete
session proposals, but will consider these suggestions as well.
We are particularly interested in suggestions for keynote speakers.
When providing information about proposed presenters, please do not
send us each presenter's entire resume! Just let us know a few
relevant details.
The program committee may accept parts of submissions without accepting
the entire submission. For example, the program committee might
combine multiple proposals, or take a session topic but fill it
in with different speakers. Where submissions are combined with others,
the submitter’s contribution will be acknowledged in the program.
CFP does not generally provide speaker honoraria. We will waive the
conference registration fees for speakers from academic, non-profit,
and government institutions (except for BOFs). In addition, travel
funding may be available for some speakers through the CFP scholarship
programs or on a case-by-case basis.
General Tutorials Plenary Sessions Birds-of-a-Feather
Sessions
We are particularly interested in half day tutorials (3 hours, including
break) that provide a crash course in a topic of interest to
CFP audiences. For example, tutorials on cyberspace law for non-lawyers
and encryption for non-technical people have been popular in
the past. We will also consider 1 and 1/2 hour tutorials and
full day tutorials.
Tutorials may be presented by a single presenter or a team of presenters.
Tutorials should be submitted by one of the proposed presenters.
If you have an idea for a tutorial but are not proposing to present
it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion.”
> Example tutorial submission
General Tutorials Plenary Sessions Birds-of-a-Feather
Sessions
Plenary
sessions are sessions held in the main ballroom that will be
attended by almost all of the conference attendees (about 500
people). They generally take the form of a panel discussion or
debate, but we enthusiastically encourage other formats including
talk shows, games, moot courts, role plays, and other creative
ideas. Plenary sessions are 1 to 2 hours, and should include
at least 20 minutes for audience questions and discussion. When
they take the form of a panel discussion, we recommend that the
panel include 3 to 5 participants (including a moderator).
Plenary
sessions should be organized by the submitter (with help from
the program committee). The submitter may optionally also be
one of the presenters, but that is not required. We prefer submissions
in which all the proposed presenters have been confirmed by the
submitter. However, we will also consider submissions in which
not all the speakers are confirmed, especially if you list alternative
speakers in case your top choices are not available. You might
also list a type of person rather than name specific people (for
example, an academic intellectual property lawyer, or a musician
who distributes music on the Internet for free). However, it
is helpful if you can list some possible names so that the program
committee may be confident that you will be able to find the
kind of people you describe.
If
you have an idea for a plenary session but are not proposing
to organize it, please submit it as a "topic or activity
suggestion."
> Example plenary session submission
General Tutorials Plenary Sessions Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
BOFs
are informal evening sessions, usually attended by anywhere from
10 to 50 conference participants. They may include presentations,
group discussions, open meetings of organizations, or informal
opportunities for people with a common interest to meet each
other. BOFs are frequently used to as the jumping off point for
ongoing collaborative activity on a given technical or policy
issue. We encourage BOFs that will lead to future activity. BOF
submitters should be prepared to organize the BOF they submit.
> Example BOF session submission
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