The next OpenACS and .LRN Conference for 2009 is organized by the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, at Cartago city, from 3 - 6 November 2009.

The eLearning and Open Source activity will be held on Tuesday, 3 November and its open for external users. The purpose of this day activity is to exchange experiencies and explore applications in the field of online engineering.

This is also a call for abstracts (max 150 words) for presentations, demos, posters and workshops. All abstracts should be sent to (send mail)

Visit the Conference site at http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009

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A comment about the abstracts submission deadline, most of the people here in Europe are on vacation during august so I think we should delay this deadline until sept 10th. This way people would have time to come back from their vacation, write something and submit it.

Another question: is there a mailing list for the program committee members?

Thank you.

I was invited by Alvaro and Rocael to be part of the 8th OpenACS/.LRN Conference: Program Committee (in particular, chair of the Evaluation commitee of the conference), and I accepted . So I guess my name (Olga C. Santos) should be in that list, too.

When the website is ready, I can disseminate the conference in several mailing lists, as well as review the submissions received, as I've done in past editions of this and other conferences. I'm happy to help!

Thanks.

Olga

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

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

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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 Santamaría, 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.

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

And go to the "REGISTER NOW" link

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I need to have some information about your conference registration.

1. Are you going to attend to the conference?($200)
2. Do you have plans to take the Arenal Volcano trip?(about $100)(I will send the trip details later)(some of the information are in the home page
www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009 )

3. Do you know if someone else out of this list is going to come to CR to the Conference(Who)?

All this Questions are because I need to know how many spaces we are specting to the Conference
and also I need to know Who's are going to attend to the conference.

Regards

Cristina