Submission Guidelines
General:
All submissions must be made using the CFP2002
electronic submission system. After filling
out your contact information and other basic information you may e-mail
the body (in plain text) of your submission to us if you prefer at submissions@cfp2002.org. You will
receive instructions about where to mail the body of your submission
after you fill out the basic information on the submission form.
Submitters' contact information will be used only to contact you about
your submission and to send you information about the CFP conference.
Session, tutorial, and workshop
submissions must be received by October 15. BOF submissions may
be made until February 18 (and beyond if space permits).
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 also 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, take a session topic but fill it in
with different speakers, or take a proposal submitted as a plenary
session and turn it into a workshop.
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.
Tutorials:
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 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]
Plenary 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 will consider 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 has
some confidence 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]
Workshops:
Workshops sessions are sessions held in parallel, with 30 to 200
conference attendees expected to attend each session. Workshop
submissions may include similar content to plenary sessions; however,
we are particularly interested in workshop submissions that take
advantage of having a smaller audience and promote audience
interaction. In addition to the formats suggested for plenary
sessions, workshops might take the form of a town hall meeting or a
single speaker and audience discussion. Workshops might also be
proposed in which the participants are broken up into small groups for
brainstorming or discussion and then the groups are brought back
together.
Workshops 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 has
some confidence that you will be able to find the kind of people you
describe.
If you have an idea for a workshop but are not proposing to organize
it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion."
[Example workshop session submission]
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. BOF submitters
should be prepared to organize the BOF they submit.
[Example BOF submission]
If you have further questions about submissions please e-mail
submissions@cfp2002.org.
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