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<p>Hi Victor, Tassilo, everyone,</p>
<p>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".</p>
<p>I had an e-mail exchange with Paul today, discussing a few next
steps for the R&I track(s). <br>
</p>
<p>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. <br>
</p>
<p>However, this got me thinking about the next steps, which in turn
raised a few questions.</p>
<p>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?<br>
</p>
<p>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? <br>
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<p>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?</p>
<p>Hopefully we will not end up in that scenario, but just want to
be prepared, and have some decision dates put into my calendar.<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Eva<br>
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