A conference session RFP and preliminary agenda was made available on April 4, and 11 proposals were approved. The organizers are soliciting an additional 5 workshops.

For preliminary proposals we asked for just a half-page, including:
1) Type of Workshop
2) Name
3) Address
4) Phone
5) Email Address
6) Catchy Title
7) Candidates for who might be on your panel and what they bring to the table (if applicable).
8) 40-50 word description of your panel.
9) Audience (indicate who your workshop is designed for: non-technical audience, people with some tech background, or advanced techies/ software developers)
10) A/V Expectations. Most rooms will be have a hookup to project SVGA video from your laptop port.
__Please check here if you will not need to project 800x600 or 1024x768 video.
__Please indicate here if you need live Internet access

For the final proposals we additionally need the following:

1) Please revise your description to be up to 75 words in length. If you have multiple presenters feel free to add 15 words for each additional presenter, i.e. Jae Jones will speak about using technology to do _____. If you have no revisions, please email us to let us know.

2) Please submit a bio of up to 75 words to be used in the conference packet. Bios of more than 75 words WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. The preferred way to submit a bio is to enter it as a page on our web site, by going to this link. Or you can send bios to conf2006 <at> oc-tech.org.

The full description of the program will be updated constantly at http://wiki.oc-tech.org.

A PDF version of the original RFP is available at the following link:
http://oc-tech.org/files/2006rfp-web.pdf

SURVEYMONKEY SURVEY HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN. PLEASE EMAIL US. [Per instructions in the RFP, proposals may be submitted by email or using the following SurveyMonkey survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=554531973332]

The people on the agenda planning committee are:

- Harold Jordan (Philadelphia), Martha Rogers (New Bedford, MA), Alison Stanton (Chicago area), Erica Lopez (Boston), Ethan Winn (Boston), Amy Lipka (Ohio), Rich Cowan, Kaliya Hamlin (Berkeley), and Gregory Heller (Seattle)