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A friendly warning about JavaOne submissions

Posted by felipeal on January 08, 2005 at 07:02 AM | Comments (3)

As I (and many others) have mentioned earlier, the JavaOne call for papers is open.

But beware of the dog, I mean the submit button - this year the system has changed and once you click "Submit - Finalize" your submission is final.

Although this seems obvious for a "newbie" submitter, it is not for people that have submitted proposals in the previous years, as the old system allowed you to edit the submissions. In fact, you never actually finalized a submission, you could edit it until the last day. So I think they changed the system to speed up the selection process - once the submission is finalized, the Program Comittee could start evaluating it, without waiting for the final day.

I personally preferred the old system, specially when you have co-speakers and/or peers helping to review your submission. So, if you like this approach too, be careful and do these steps externally to the system, *before* submitting your proposal - once they're submitted, they're done.

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thanks for the warning. at the moment i'm struggling to even get the button to work. is anyone else who is _not_ using ie/wintel having difficulties? i'm using firefox on macosx. thanks, / eitan

Posted by: eitan on January 11, 2005 at 07:38 AM

Hi Eitan,

I use Firefox/Linux at home and it works fine, both on FC3 (laptop) and FC1 (desktop).

-- Felipe

Posted by: felipeal on January 11, 2005 at 07:45 AM

thanks for the info. it's good to know it works under linux. i have tried mozilla 1.7.5, firefox 1.0, and safari so far without any luck. i'm beginning to realize that surely i'm not the first person to try to use a mac to submit a paper. so my new theory is that my javaone call for papers account is in a unique state. either that or i'm totally overlooking something fundamental.

Posted by: eitan on January 11, 2005 at 11:23 AM

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