sneSCM

Scandinavian Network of Excellence
in
Software Configuration Management

Call for contributions:

We are looking for two kinds of contributions:

• Open Space sessions: an Open Space session is a 45-minute slot of which you would like to spend the final 10 minutes or so on summarizing the outcome of your Open Space with the help of the participants.
  Open Space sessions are primarily meant for things like a problem that has bothered you for a long time, but your haven't manage to solve yet - or a vague idea that has haunted for some time, but where the mist is still keeping you from seeing it clearly. Then an Open Space session is the perfect possibility to get 45 minutes of free help from a group of SCM experts during a focused brainstorm session on your problem/idea and guided/facilitated by you - and could maybe also result in a presentation at the next SCM day ;-)
  This is what is required from you for an Open Space session:
  • a title and a 2-4 sentence abstract describing the Open Space (now)
  • two-three slides about your Open Space - presented at the start of the Open Spaces setting the scene for your Open Space (before the SCM day)
• Presentations: presentation slots at the SCM day are 45 minutes, of which people usually spend 20-25 minutes on the actual presentation and leave 20-25 minutes for questions and discussions. But you are free to use your slot as you seem fit.
  Presentations are primarily meant for things that you have actually done and where there is some sort of a result to present. It might be a smart solution or trick that you have found, it might be some problem of difficult "situation" that you have identified and analysed - or an interesting observation (or opinion) about configurarion management in general that you would like to share and discuss with others.
  This is what is required from you for a Presentation:
  • a title and a 4-6 sentence abstract describing the purpose and contents of your presentation (now)
  • a (small) number of slides for the actual presentation (before the SCM day)
• Tutorial/workshop: this year we want to dedicate the whole morning session to a tutorial or a workshop. This will give us sufficient time to discuss more broadly and also dig deeper into the details. This is often a problem we have experienced with the shorter Open Spaces / Presentations sessions.
  We would like to solicit ideas from you on what could be an interesting topic for such a tutorial or workshop. What concepts or parts of SCM would you find useful for a tutorial? What (SCM-related) problematics would you find interesting to dig deeper into with a group of peers? Send us your ideas and we will do our best to turn one of them into an enlightening tutorial or an exciting workshop.

If you want to contribute to the Scandinavian SCM day, send an email to Lars Bendix (bendix@sneSCM.org) with your proposal no later than April 24.

I will be more than happy to help you bring your loose ideas into the form of an Open Space session or a presentation if you need a little guidance.