Maybe that's the whole point, maybe it should be the whole point. But we could ask for a report, and provide some easy way to give a report. Would it be worthwhile? --RonJeffries
This year (2004), each workshop is required to supply a poster, and part of the workshop proposal is to explain how you're going to spread the results. -rpg
And also, I'm sure there will be a bunch of workshops that function as academic miniconferences, some of which will do fully-refereed fully published proceedings.
While I like the ideas of WorkshopsWithResults, I'm also concerned about the cost.Especially with workshops (and elsewhere perhaps) we can afford to be more entrepenurial that say in the TC program - take more things at higher risk of them being junk for a greater chance that one of them every few years wil change the world.
As I've mentioned somewhere else on this wiki, I think that workshops could be a great way to bring research dynamism into the main conference. I've participated in the workshop poster sessions before, and they're not the best for getting the results out there. I've also never gained as much from reading a workshop poster of a workshop I was interested in but unable to attend.
One of the reasons I say this is that at ICSE, there has been an Aspect-Orientation workshop for years, but there was sense in the broader SE community that this work was going on.
I like the idea of having workshops "opened" in some way, like a fishbowl re-enactment of some of the debate that went on, or a real presentation by some of the contributors. A half-day session or even a modified Onward! style track would be great for exposing newly emerging ideas.