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SalonDesRefuses

In an art competition, a room showing rejected paintings.

From: http:/www.nga.govfeaturemanettdef_refuses.htm

An art exhibition held in 1863 for works that had been rejected from the official Paris Salon. Emperor Napoleon III ordered the special exhibition to answer protests over the number of rejected works.

Paintings by Edouard Manet and James !McNeill Whistler were among those shown.

the OOPSLA 2001 IntruigingTechnologies session functioned as a SalonDesRefuses.

-- JamesKjx

Here's one concrete plan:

PC accepts 30 full papers at 10+ pages and 30 minute slots
PC then accepts the next 30 submissions as short papers for 4 pages at 15 minute slots.

CHI etc short papers are 4 pages. The catch here is that ShortPapers need to be long enough that people will actually submit them. Currently everyone rejected from OOPSLA is invited to submit a poster, but only a small percentage do. One reason I think is that posters are seen as completely without prestige - academically or elsewhere. Increasing the prestige of a short paper section could encourage more

insider academics and researchers to attend - even without a paper in the 'main' programme

JamesKjx

Keep it the ShortEssay session (including papers) -- and do not target only academics and researchers. If we got for art and craft we want the craftsmen there, and the tinkerers.

Why have the essays as "next 30 submissions"? Why not threat them as first rate and different? mdv