Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: OpenACS/.LRN Conference_______Costa Rica 2009

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Posted by Cristina Arias on
Hi,

The Conference site is now updated!!!
Apologies for any inconvenient.

http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009/

Thanks

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Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on
Hi Cristina,

I'm still confused. The page you point to says that the conference will be <q>from 3 - 6 November 2009</q>, however at the end of the text (and at the Program page), it says that the conference ends on thursday 5 november with an optional tour to the Arenal Volcano after lunch.

Is there any activity scheduled on friday 6 november?

Sorry to insist but it's important for booking flights and hotel.

Thank you.

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Posted by Cristina Arias on
Hi Emmanuelle,

The Arenal Volcano is about 4 hours far from Cartago (Where the OpenACS and .LRN Conference takes place). According to the plans we are going to stay there from 5 at nigth thru 6 at after lunch then we come back to Cartago. So around 6 pm on 6th Friday November the bus will across the center of the country (will be at the airport Juan SantamarĂ­a, Alajuela) so I suggest you to reserve in a Hotel around the airport and plan your flight on Saturday or Friday night.

I will specify more the tour on the web site.

If you have any questions be free of asking, I'm glad of help.

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Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on
Cristina,

Thank you for your answer. Everything is clear now.

That trip to the volcano sounds very nice 😊. Thanks for organizing it.

Hi Cristina,

I've been browising the conference website. I've found some inconsistences in the content of the 'Submission of the Papers' section which I think should be updated to avoid confusion among potential participants, such as:
-"selection of works will be performed by the members of the Scientific Committee for the 2009 Edutec"
-Are we doing an anoynimous reviewing process? I'm ok with it, but we should make it clear in the CFP
-Work will be accepted in Spanish?
-Guidelines. In the CFP it is stated to follow Springer guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0). Here, it specifies a different format:
Papers should be set to A4 size, single column, with 3.5 cm top margin, bottom margin of 2.5 cm, 3.0 cm lateral margin, with the head and skirtings. The source must be Garamond, size 12, single space, with areas of 6 points between paragraphs, not pages should be numbered, the title of the work must also be in the same source, but in size 16, bold.
-Summary - approximately 200 words, while in the CFP it says 150

Moreover, I also suggest to prepare a textual description of the conference (in plain text).

Hope you find these comments useful.

Olga