Guidelines for Position Papers

In addition to attending the workshop meeting, WorkshopParticipants will be asked to come prepared with positions to share. The WorkshopOrganizers will ask each participant to write a short (one- or two-page) position paper in advance of the meeting. The PositionPapers will be collected and distributed to participants before the meeting, and will be included in the starting points for the ultimate workshop report.

Submitting a Paper

Please submit your position paper by Monday, May 17.

You can submit your paper via email to the WorkshopOrganizers. Alternatively, feel free to upload your paper directly to the PositionPapers page. That is the Wiki way!

Guidelines

As a workshop participant, the exact content and organization of your position paper is up to you. However, we suggest that authors try to provide depth in their areas of expertise, as opposed to addressing the full breadth of the issues that will be discussed at the workshop. The workshop aims to achieve breadth through the range and diversity of the panelists and the communities they represent.

For example, in your position paper, you might summarize a particular project in your field that aims at providing repeatable, archivable experiments. Ideally, such a summary would include a section on lessons learned: in what ways did the project succeed, and in what ways should future projects be improved?

Another possible paper organization is one that focuses on a particular issue in your field. Such a paper could describe how the issue affects research activities in your area, and then summarize how researchers have dealt with (or failed to deal with!) the issue in practice. Perhaps new infrastructure or processes are needed to address the issue.

A third kind of paper might focus on an important enabling technology in your field, i.e., a tool that exists to support collaboration and "replayable" experiments. This type of paper would present the lessons learned by users of the tool---how it helps, how it hinders, and what issues it leaves unaddressed.

In summary, we suggest that you choose a topic that is particular to your field, experience, or area of expertise. Write a concise, one- or two-page summary of the topic and include lessons learned. As appropriate, suggest ways that other communities could benefit from your experience, and identify ways in which your community could benefit from the expertise of others. Include references as appropriate, but limit them; we suggest that you focus on depth as opposed to breadth.

Position Papers

You can see the PositionPapers that have been collected so far.