<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Winston, <br><br></div>Please stick to the described format. You should link to additional resources, but your proposal should be standalone such that the reviewers of your proposal can evaluate it based only on the proposal. <br><br></div><div></div><div>For general guidance on writing talk proposals here's a list of resources I found.<br><br><a href="https://benramsey.com/blog/2012/11/writing-an-effective-talk-proposal/">https://benramsey.com/blog/2012/11/writing-an-effective-talk-proposal/</a><br><a href="https://www.usenix.org/blog/how-write-talk-proposal">https://www.usenix.org/blog/how-write-talk-proposal</a><br><a href="http://www.noelrappin.com/railsrx/2014/1/18/conference-prompts-or-how-to-submit-proposals-and-influence-people">http://www.noelrappin.com/railsrx/2014/1/18/conference-prompts-or-how-to-submit-proposals-and-influence-people</a><br><a href="http://www.noelrappin.com/railsrx/2014/3/17/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals">http://www.noelrappin.com/railsrx/2014/3/17/what-i-learned-from-reading-429-conference-proposals</a><br><a href="http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/">http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2014/04/07/what-your-conference-proposal-is-missing/</a><br><a href="http://weareallaweso.me/for_speakers/how-to-write-a-compelling-proposal.html">http://weareallaweso.me/for_speakers/how-to-write-a-compelling-proposal.html</a><br></div><div><br></div>Tully<br><br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 4:59 AM, WinstonYao via ros-users <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ros-users@lists.ros.org" target="_blank">ros-users@lists.ros.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px">Hi all!<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px">    I have done some work on ROS and Gazebo and in order to give back to the community, I am glad to write a proposal to the coming ROScon. But sorry that it is my first time to write a session proposal so I want to ask for any guideline, format requirements or template of the proposal. In the official website of ROScon, it states that:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div>A session proposal should include:</div><div>    Title</div><div>    Recommended duration: Short (~20 minutes) or Long (~45 minutes)</div><div>    Summary, 100 word max (to be used in advertising the session)</div><div>    Description (for review purposes): outline, goals (what will the audience learn?), pointers to packages to be discussed (500 Words Maximum)</div><div><br></div><div>I just wonder, <span style="line-height:19.0399990081787px">besides those items stated above, </span><span style="line-height:1.7">whether I should add extra content to the proposal or not. I will appreciate any suggestion.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.7"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:1.7">Winston Yao</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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