[ORGA-SEMANTiCS-2020-EU] Next steps of the 2020 R&I track?

[Eva Blomqvist]

Hi Victor, Tassilo, everyone,

this is mostly relevant for the general chairs and anyone involved in 
the R&I and special tracks, but I am using the list, hopefully no one 
thinks it generates too much "spam".

I had an e-mail exchange with Paul today, discussing a few next steps 
for the R&I track(s).

Since the abstract deadline is approaching (18th) I took a look in 
EasyChair, and so far we have 9 abstract submissions for the R&I tracks 
(including special tracks). Of course, we all know that most submissions 
come at the last minute, but just FYI.

However, this got me thinking about the next steps, which in turn raised 
a few questions.

First one: I assume we will do the already planned deadline extension? 
When do we announce it? Me an Paul were thinking of this Friday as a 
good time, but can we "schedule" that to happen already (immediately 
now, or on Friday), or do we then have to contact whoever will actually 
post it on the website/social media/EasyChair etc.? And who notifies the 
PC members in EasyChair of the new dates?

Second, I guess that we should open the bidding for papers by the PC 
members right after the abstract deadline has passed (so on April 25th, 
with the new deadline), which means that also this is the time when we 
decide if we have got a "sufficient number of submissions", right?

I really hope we will get a reasonable amount of good submissions, but 
worst case we will only get a few of them, and I would not want to 
bother reviewers with just a handful of crappy submissions, and keep the 
few good ones "locked into" our review process for a month, if in the 
end we need to reject most of them and we have to cancel the whole thing 
anyway due to lack of papers to accept. Do we have already some plan for 
such a worst-case scenario from the general chairs? Do we plan a call at 
this point in time to discuss, e.g. with all the special track chairs as 
well? Or are you simply leaving it up to me and Paul to make a decision 
on the fly, when we see the number of abstracts/papers and look through 
them?

Hopefully we will not end up in that scenario, but just want to be 
prepared, and have some decision dates put into my calendar.

Cheers,

Eva

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