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Full-length paper deadline

Nanshu Lu — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:57:28 -0400

The Final Full-Length Paper should be 4-pages long and submitted electronically in .PDF form by August 15th, 2007 to tattard@csufresno.edu.

Sorry for the confusion.

what about the deadline for

Kewei Li — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:13:16 -0400

what about the deadline for full-length paper, august 15th or sept 15th ? It's different in your Call for paper and conference homepage.

Thanks for posting

ericmock — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:29:15 -0400

Zhigang, thank you very much for posting this as I am planning to submit an engineering virtual organizations (EVO) proposal this time around. The reviewer's comments will be extremely useful as I polish my proposal. My ideas have been over ten years in development and the activity on iMechanica made me realize that the mechanics community might be ready for what I call Open Source Publishing. I will be posting a blog entry shortly to solicit feedback and direct people to the web site that contains the proposal. Yes, the first Open Source document to be made available to the public will be the proposal itself. As the results will benefit the community, my hope is that the community can help shape the vision and even be involved in refining the proposal.

Eric Mockensturm (emm10@psu.edu)

A blessing in disguise

Zhigang Suo — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:08:09 -0400

Lack of funding in this case may as well be a blessing in disguise. When the idea of using the Internet to evolve all knowledge of mechanics first came to me, as an academic, my natural action was to talk about it and write a proposal. During that period, I had many long conversations with Zak Stone, a student in physics and computer science. He once asked me, "but Zhigang, why do you need funding for doing this?" Indeed, for what we want to do, at least initially, we don't need more research about online communities. Rather, we need to motivate many people to participate. The technology already exists.

The lack of funding has drastically reduced the scope of the proposed work, and focused our attention to one aspect: bringing the community together through Drupal. This has given us time to reflect on what we have learned through online interactions. The levels of commitment of the participants are not too high to disrupt our other activities.

Now we can regard iMechanica as a testbed for further experiments. One possible way to move forward is to decentralize the development. Individual users may include their iMechanica activities as parts of their regular NSF proposals. Possible ideas include helping K-12 students produce videos, posting innovative material for teaching, promoting a new area of research through forum discussion...

For more ambitions development of iMechanica as an online platform for mechanics, we can use iMechanica as a forum to discuss specific ideas, and can even write a proposal as a community.

perhaps it can be funded now

Pradeep Sharma — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:25:00 -0400

Zhigang, this is a very nicely written proposal. Looks like that you have addressed most of the reviewer criticisms! It may be worthwhile for you to resubmit now that you have "preliminary results"!

Twelve steps to win a proposal

Nanshu Lu — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:29:42 -0400

Thank you very much for letting us know about this event.

There is a nice article by George A. Hazelrigg: Twelve steps to win a proposal to share with friends here.

deadline

Ken P. Chong — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:38:40 -0400

The deadline for other programs in CMS is posted. Since Oct. 1 is a Sunday so the deadline is Oct. 2 for 2006.

KPC

Oct. 1 is Sunday

Rui Huang — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:31:38 -0400

Ken:

I believe this deadline applies for other CMS programs as well, and it holds on even it is Sunday on Oct. 1 (which means a real deadline on Friday, Sept. 29). Please correct me if I am mistaken. Thanks.