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author : Henri Bergius (IP: 193.1.27.187 , 193.1.27.187)
e-mail : bergie iki fi
url    : http://www.oscom.org/
comment: 
Good summary on how we handled the weblog and IRC part of the OSCOM 3 conference at:
http://www.zzoss.com/weblog/index.php?m=200306#70

### 11.1. Web Site ###

The conference utilized several technologies to inform about it, keep people interacting, etc. First of all, all necessary information has been presented online at the OSCOM Web site [14].

All proposals sent in due to the call for papers have been published there. Each proposal has been placed at one page with the possibility for anyone to comment the proposals online. This utility was only randomly used for criticizing proposals or adding ideas to it [15]. Also, the comment form has been used to post links to the session slides after the conference had finished.

### 11.2. Weblogs ###

The OSCOM Web site itself offers a general Weblog [16] where OSCOM-related issues are being tracked. A speciality was introduced for the conference: each proposal aka session could be referenced by a TrackBack ping from other people's Weblogs if they refer to a certain proposal in their Weblog story. This opened up a cosmos of individuals circling around common ideas and interests.

Discussions about OSCOM sessions, especially the keynotes [17], kept going on at several Weblogs. Unfortunately, not all of those discussions can be found from the OSCOM Web site up to now. At the beginning of OSCOM, Sam Ruby came up with the idea of a "Ridiculously Easy Group Forming" by referring to his Weblog entry "Are you going to OSCOM?" [18]. Unfortunately, this initiative was followed only by some Webloggers, otherwise the decentral discussions going on during and after OSCOM 3 may be found easier. Maybe OSCOM could provide a “I have a blog about OSCOM 3” group forming blog entry just like Sam’s?

### 11.3. Mailinglist ###

A participants mailinglist [19] was provided for those interested in attending the conference. This mailing list served/serves the following purposes:
- At the beginning, discussions took place about how OSCOM should be organized [20]
- Comments to the proposals have automatically been sent to this mailing list
- TrackBacks to the proposals have been sent to this list
- Participants were able to discuss accommodation and travel issues
- Keep participants informed about after-conference events

### 11.4. Video and Audio ###

All sessions have been videotaped, some auf them audiotaped. Videos are not available as of time of writing, but some mp3 files can already be downloaded [21].

### 11.5. IRC ###

The closing panel was live broadcasted via IRC. Some OSCOM members wrote notes from the discussion to the chat, so that remote attendees could follow. The room that the closing panel took place had WLAN and Ethernet Internet access at every seat.

You can see all comments on this post there: 
http://live.guadec.org/blog/index.php?p=1&c=1