Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: PHIGS Users Group Conference
From: hamlin@mdcbbs.com (Griff Hamlin)
Date: 16 Oct 92 11:30:43 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Keywords: PHIGS

---------------------------------------------------------------
                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                           FIRST ANNUAL
                   PHIGS USERS GROUP CONFERENCE
     
                       March 21 - 24, 1993
                         Sheraton Hotel
                        Orlando, Florida
     
The First Annual PHIGS Users Group conference is the premiere open 
forum on issues related to PHIGS.  The conference is an excellent
meeting point for PHIGS users, application developers, researchers, 
students, vendors of PHIGS-related products and management personnel 
concerned with graphics products and use of graphics standards.
     
The purpose of the conference is to aid/encourage the development of 
PHIGS graphics application software, educate software developers in the 
use and availability of PHIGS, provide user feedback to PHIGS implementors 
and PHIGS standards bodies, and provide a means for PHIGS users to share 
experience and knowledge.
     
                        CONFERENCE TOPICS
     
       - Development or use of PHIGS applications or PHIGS implementations.
       - Comparative studies of PHIGS implementations.
       - Novel ways to use PHIGS.
       - PEX.
       - PHIGS teaching aids.
       - Testing, debugging, or benchmarking techniques for PHIGS.
       - PHIGS standardization issues: history, prospects, etc.
     
                        HOW TO PARTICIPATE
     
To submit an extended abstract of a technical paper, a draft of a poster 
note, a notice of intent to contribute software, a proposal for a panel 
session or a tutorial session, or to request information about the Phigs 
Users Group, mail your submission or request to:
                        Mary Johnson
                        Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                        Design Research Center
                        110 8th Street
                        Troy, N.Y., 12180-3590
                        mjohnson@rdrc.RPI.edu
Submissions for the conference must be received by Nov 1, 1992.
     
                              PAPERS

Technical papers related to conference topics are solicited. Previously
published papers will be considered if the previous publication is not 
generally available to a majority of conference attendees and if the 
copyright holder gives written permission.
A technical paper's extended abstract should contain a brief description 
of any work done and state the major points or conclusions of the paper. 
Notice of acceptance or rejection of technical papers will be mailed 
Dec 1, 1992. A camera ready copy of the paper is due Feb 1, 1992, and should 
be no more than 10 pages. The final, camera ready, paper is due Feb 1, 
1993.  The papers will be printed in the conference proceedings.  
Authors of accepted papers are invited to give a presentation of the 
paper of approximately 30 minutes.
     
                           POSTER NOTES
     	
A poster note of no more than one page is useful to describe a topic with 
a very specialized interest, a topic of less complexity than a technical 
paper, or a topic well suited to a visual display. Notice of acceptance 
or rejection of poster notes will be mailed by Dec 1, 1992. Camera ready 
poster notes are due Feb 1, 1993.  Accepted poster note authors will be 
invited to participate in a poster session, displaying a poster describing 
their note along with associated pictures, charts, video tapes, computer
demonstrations, or other explanatory material. 
During the poster session, poster note authors answer questions and discuss 
their poster note with poster session attendees in small groups, providing 
a high level of author/attendee interaction. 
     
                       PANEL SESSIONS
     
Panel sessions discuss PHIGS related topics of current interest and 
usually express one or more points of view on such topics. Such topics 
include but are not limited to:
     
       - current and future status of PHIGS within standards bodies.
       - Advisability of certain changes to PHIGS.
       - How PHIGS should be used?
       - Whether PHIGS should be tailored to some application areas.
       - Comparison of PHIGS and other standards.
     
A one to three page proposal for a panel session should identify the 
panel moderator and as many of the panel participants as are known, 
describe the topic of discussion, and request a session length between one 
and two hours. Panel sessions will be selected on an assessment of the
level of interest in the PHIGS community of the panel's topic, the
timeliness of the topic and the suitability of the panel members to 
discuss the topic. 
     
                          TUTORIALS
     
A tutorial may be given by an individual or by a small group
of speakers. A tutorial may be either a half-day (3 hours) or a full-day 
(6 hours) in length.  A tutorial proposal should identify the speaker(s),
describe the topic including a syllabus, and state the PHIGS
knowledge level assumed of the audience (introductory, intermediate,
or advanced). Camera ready material for hand-out to attendees
must be received by Jan 15, 1993.
     
                       CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE
     
Contributed software will be available at the conference
in various media, and may be obtained from the PHIGS Users Group after
the conference. The software must use PHIGS in some meaningful way.
Examples of such software include, but are not limited to:
- Software for teaching PHIGS
- Software for debugging or optimizing PHIGS applications.
- Software to enhance the ease-of-use of PHIGS.
- Software to add higher-order functionality to PHIGS.
A Notice of intent to contribute software should state the nature of 
the software to be contributed.  The software must either be in the 
public domain or the copyright holder must give permission for free 
unrestricted use and distribution of the software. The copyright holder 
may require that a copyright notice be included with the software. 
Software is due February 1, 1993.
     
Newsgroups: comp.graphics