[sustran] Velo-city "in" Sevilla: Introducing the online poster and abstract exhibition!!!

[Todd Edelman]

Velo-city "in" Sevilla: Introducing the online poster and abstract 
exhibition!!!

http://greenideafactory.blogspot.com/2011/03/velo-city-in-sevilla-introducing-online.html

Do you miss the poster exhibition at Velo-city? Through 2007 Munich (or 
2009 Brussels ?), Velo-city had a poster exhibition which served as a 
way to promote solutions, concepts, views and results which - for 
reasons of not being quite compelling enough and/or space limits, among 
others - could not be in the main programme of presentations and 
workshops. There were also comments to ECF staff that the poster 
sessions - a time to interact with poster-makers - were too rushed or 
chaotic, making it difficult for poster presenters to effectively 
communicate the content in their posters.

In summer 2010 there was a decision to not have a poster exhibition in 
Sevilla. While it is clear that the new and improved format of 
plenaries, presentations, question workshops, and round tables formally 
introduces a lot of new interactivity to sessions, it is also clear that 
a lot of good, controversial and/or perhaps not quite fully-formed 
proposals (abstracts) did not make it into the programme.

Another advantage to a poster exhibition - more specifically, one which 
would include abstracts both accepted and not, and there were over 250 
submitted for Sevilla but only about 100 accepted - would be that it 
could serve as way to "be in two places at the same time", i.e. to not 
have to be forced to choose between two sessions running simultaneously: 
You could attend one in person and then later on visit the poster 
exhibition of the other. Similarly, this would also able one to use a 
poster as a preview for a session happening later in the day or the week.

I proposed the above to Velo-city organizers (at ECF and in Sevilla, and 
also to ECF board members) but it was rejected, first as a Velo-city 
event and then as an independent one (with some cooperation from 
organizers to obtain contact info for people who sent in abstracts). (I 
have also proposed this for future Velo-city's, but have not yet 
received a response and to the newly-forming Cycling Embassy of the 
Netherlands, just for Sevilla, but never heard back...)

Therefore I am happy to announce that I will co-ordinate a online poster 
and abstract exhibition! For both rejected and accepted abstracts!

It is very simple: Starting now (and running indefinitely) I will accept 
PDFs and JPEGs of both posters you would like to make or just the same 
accepted or rejected abstract you sent to the Velo-city organizers 
earlier this year. Read carefully: Starting this Tuesday 22 March, and 
updated daily until the end of the month, I will post a
link for these on my blog. Include a very short summary, and I will 
include it on my blog along with the link. These will be viewable as 
downloads from a virtual hard drive, probably Dropbox. Alternatively, 
you may just send a link (and a summary) to your website if you prefer 
to post it or have it downloadable there.

The only abstracts or posters which will be rejected are those which are 
blatantly offensive for any reason. I will post everything automatically 
but people who offended me will be able to to appeal. All final 
decisions are mine and I take no responsibility for anything I will 
choose to post. The views expressed in the linked abstracts and poster 
are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect my views.

Please send abstracts and posters as PDFs or JPEGs (ideally smaller file 
sizes, please!) to edelman(at)greenidea.eu.

If you would like to make a financial contribution for this or have any 
other suggestions, questions or offers of assistance, please let me know.

See you in virtual Sevilla! (I will not be there.)

(Velo-city is a project of ECF and has nothing to do with this 
exhibition... at least not yet.)

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Todd Edelman
Green Idea Factory/Slow Factory,
a member of the OPENbike team

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edelman at greenidea.eu
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