(back to OnwardPlanning)
Below is my (not great) start for the CFP. Most of the good stuff is stolen from Dick's earlier entries elsewhere on this wiki...
Edit at will. eb.
also a question: will the CFP for onward encompass all the various things you can submit for, such as Onward panels, presentations, essays, etc, or will you just be able to submit "in an onward style" to all the main essays, panels, etc? and then get redirected appropriately? Only breakthroughs and film are special to onward. As are "presentations" if those are other than an invited set...eb
computational problems or systems, and new technologies will be presented in the Onward! Track. Such papers
need not advance the state of the art, but should aim, instead, to alter or redefine the art by proposing a leap forward-or sideways-regarding computing.
An Onward! Track paper need not contain a fully worked out theory or implemented system, but must be wellthought out, well-written, and compelling in its vision or uniqueness of thinking. Papers submitted to the Onward!
Track will be reviewed by the regular program committee, and in some cases papers submitted to the technicalprogram may be directed to the Onward! Track, if appropriate. Accepted papers will be presented in parallel with
the OOPSLA regular technical program and published in the Proceedings.Powerpoint can’t possibly do it any longer. As programmers, or those who work with programmers, it is time for us to be able to break out of the boundaries set by the animated “next slide”. Consider submitting a film. Films should be 10-20 minutes. Production quality can vary. Genre is up to you. These will be screened both in the regular track, and in a “festival event” in the evening.
All accepted full-length papers will be published in the Proceedings. Regular papers will be published in the Technical Papers section, essays in the Essays section, and Onward! papers in the Prolegomena section.
An Onward! Track paper need not contain a fully worked out theory or implemented system, but must be well thought out, well-written, and compelling in its vision or uniqueness of thinking. Papers submitted to the Onward! Track will be reviewed by the regular program committee, and in some cases papers submitted to the technical program may be directed to the Onward! Track, if appropriate. Accepted papers will be presented in parallel with the OOPSLA regular technical program and published in the Proceedings.
For Lightning Talks:
Electronic submission of proposals is required through the OOPSLA submission system. Other submissions will not be accepted.
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format (or PostScript, if you do not have access to PDF-producing programs, but this is not recommended). Final camera-ready papers must be formatted to conform to ACM Proceedings requirements: Nine point font on ten point baseline, two columns per page, each column 3.33 inches wide by 9 inches tall, with a column gutter of 0.33 inches, etc. We strongly encourage you to use this layout for initial submission as well. See the ACM Proceedings Guidelines. You can save preparation time by using one of the templates from that page. Note that MS Word documents must be converted to PDF before being submitted.Technical Paper submissions must be no longer than 10,000 words (counting each figure and table as 150 words, and also counting appendices and references) or 20 pages when formatted under the ACM format above.
A paper submitted as a Technical Paper must have content that has not previously been published in, or is not at the time of submission under review by, other refereed venues. Failure to comply with this will result in immediate rejection without review, and notification to the administrator of the other venue. This will also be the case for overlapping review periods. For example, if the review period for your OOPSLA paper (March 12, 2005 until April 29, 2005) intersects the corresponding review period for another conference to which you have submitted another paper, and the two papers are judged to have significant overlapping contributions, the program chair will communicate with the program chair of that conference to confirm the overlap, and, if there is, reject the paper at OOPSLA and so inform the other chair. The sole exception to this policy is when the previously published venue had been a workshop or comparable event with limited circulation of the material.
Papers judged to be acceptable with minor revisions may be shepherded if a shepherding subcommittee can be assembled. The author of such a paper will be notified that the submission has been rejected and will be given the option of shepherding. If the option is accepted, the author(s) will be assigned a shepherd and an anonymous two-person subcommittee. The author(s) of the paper will work for a short period with the shepherd, who will then inform the subcommittee of the results of the shepherding. The subcommittee will either accept or reject the paper. A corrected and revised paper must be resubmitted before it can be accepted. The shepherding period will last no longer than two weeks. Papers submitted by program committee members will not be shepherded.
Accepted papers will be published in the OOPSLA 2005 Proceedings and presented during a slot scheduled in the OOPSLA 2005 technical program. The Conference Proceedings will also be distributed as an issue of ACM SIGPLAN Notices.OOPSLA 2004 Program Committee