Absolutely, we need to contact them.

Do you want to share that load?

If so, send me some abstracts and email/phonecontacts, and I can deal with
them.

As far as publishing the papers to the 2006 site goes, this is a difficult
question. It can go both ways.

I do not think that it is fair to ask authors to publish to a nonexistant
conference. Papers are a valuable product that authors build and propose to a
conference in order to get a valuable currency back: notoriety and exposure.
Offering to authors to publish their papers on svgopen2006 is a bit like
bait-and-switch.

In my opinion, even though it is a well-meaning gesture, it is a somewhat
poisoned one and the author may feel pressured to publish.

Also, we REALLY ABSOLUTELY need to notify the community outside of
svg-developers and the web page. We need to get it on svg.org AT LEAST to get
the news out.

People are asking for budgets to go to the conference, and to be frank,
svg-developers has fallen into the background as far as I can see.

I considered putting a story on svg.org over the weekend pointing to Kurt's
message, but having been criticised for being a thorn in this list's side, I
feel that it would be better if someone else would do this.

Ronan

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:44, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Since we received 45 paper or abstracts I think it is our duty to
> personally inform the authors of these papers or abstracts that the
> conference won't take place at the envisaged time.
>
> Did someone do this already? If not, could you send me a list with
> papers and contact information so I (or someone else) can inform the
> authors?
>
> Someone at the yahoogroups suggested to post the papers for 2006 anyway.
> I personally, as an author, would like to resubmit the paper to another
> conference or for 2007 if that happens. Should we ask authors whether
> they would like to publish their paper now at the svgopen2006 website?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Andreas

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