Speak at Warpstock 99
The Warpstock 99 Committee in conjunction with the Warpstock Board of Directors is pleased to announce the third annual Warpstock Conference and call upon the community of OS/2 users to submit proposals for presentation at the conference. Warpstock is a forum dedicated to bringing together the OS/2 community to share expertise, experience and ideas for advancing the state of the art of personal computing, particularly on the OS/2 computing platform.

 

Page Contents
Important Dates
Suggested Topics
Format and Preparation
Sending Submissions
Clarification on submitting papers
  • We don't need an extensive document, just a brief description of what you want to present.

  • As a guideline, a one hour presentation generally contains 1500 to 2000 words. If you wish to submit an accompanying paper for our proceedings document it can be up to about 5000 words. But you don't need to submit 1500 to 5000 words in order to be considered for a presentation slot.

  • A one hour presentation generally means about 50 minutes of content and 10 minutes of preliminaries and closing. If you have a longer presentation in mind, say 1.5 hours, we would want to structure it as 10 minutes of preliminaries, 45 minutes of content, 15 minute break, another 45 minutes of content, and 5 minutes of closing. So it would neatly fit into two one hour slots.

  • Don't be shy. Conferences like Warpstock consistently report that the best received and most valued presentations are from people who know what they're talking about. If you have something to say, you'll do fine.

  • This is your conference. Your participation is what will make it a success. Thank you for your contributions.
 

Important Dates

Submission deadline: August 15, 1999
Notification to authors: September 3, 1999
Camera-ready papers due: September 8, 1999

Suggested topics

This years conference will feature six tracks over two days:

Warp Pharmacy
Warp Friendly Hardware
Application Development Cookbooks
Application Software Alternatives
IBM and The Future of Personal Computing
Personal Computing in the 21st Century

Other suggestions are :

Warp Installation; Applying Fixpacks; INI management; Performance Tuning; Device Driver Conflict Resolution; Assembling a Warp Super Station; Mother Boards and CPU's; USB; Multimedia; Video Subsystems; Storage; Printer Support; VisualAge; Sibyl; Netbeans; Office Suites; Internet Suites/Browsers; Utilities; Desktop Enhancers; Shareware, Freeware and the Open Source Model; Warp Server for e-Business; Work Space on Demand; DB2/UDB; The Alternative OS Universe; Living In a Warped World; The Linux Model; Warp VARs; The Impact of Java on Operating Systems; The Ultimate Windows Alternative - No OS.

The above list is offered to stimulate ideas and should not be considered the only topics that will be entertained.

Format and Preparation

Papers should contain 1500 to 5000 words (note that submissions should only contain a 100-200 word summary of the paper). After acceptance, papers may be edited for clarity and temporal changes until September 8, 1999. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. Selected papers will be included in the Conference proceedings, and at least one author will present the paper at the Showcase. Paper presentations will have approximately one hour including Q&A. Conference proceedings containing all papers will be distributed to attendees and will also be available from the Warpstock site once the conference ends. We also ask that, if possible, copies of presentation slides be made available for wider distribution. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable, and will be returned unread.

How and Where to Send Submissions

Please email your submission to: papers@warpstock.org in one of the following as plain text (.txt or .rtf) with no extra markup. A cover letter with the following required information in the format below must be included with all submissions:

Names and affiliation of all authors
Primary contact for the submission
Contact's full postal address
Contact's telephone number
Contact's fax number
Contact's e-mail address
URL For all speaker/authors (if available)
Title of the submission
Audio-visual requirements for presentation
An informal resume of previous talks given. Lack of experience will not disqualify a speaker.
A short summary of the paper (100-200 words). This may be the paper's abstract.

Warpstock is a user event in the truest sense of the phrase. We are an event of, by and for OS/2 users. Your participation is essential to the continuing success of this event. The Warpstock 99 committee thanks you sincerely for your interest in participating as a presenter in Warpstock 99.
 

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