[occi-wg] Special Session at CLOSER (and why it's not in my plans)

[AUGUSTO CIUFFOLETTI]

A member of this WG asked me whether I was about to launch another 
Special Session at the upcoming CLOSER. Indeed, I have considered and 
discarded this option, and the reasons are the following:

-) cost: the registration fee at CLOSER is high, and we do not have 
enough return from such investment, since
-) we might as well publish our research elsewhere, maybe in higher 
impact conferences/journals and
-) publishing to several distinct conferences/journals in open sessions 
would finally improve OCCI outreach: as a matter of fact the audience of 
the last Special Session was mostly made of WG members.

So, the past experience was fine but we might look for alternatives as 
well, and  I propose:

-) a no-fee un-conference on our own: we have a rather active meetup 
group about Cloud Computing here in Trentino, and they would certainly 
appreciate. But Pisa is fine too. This is what I can put on the plate;

-) run for a OCCI-specific workshop at a higher level conference (IEEE 
or the like). But I do not see  much improvement wrt CLOSER SS.

So that's it...

Bye to everybody and best wishes for a great 2017.

Augusto