[Stoves] ETHOS program volunteer

[Paul S. Anderson]

Dear Mark and all ETHOS-Stovers,

No comment has come from the ETHOS leadership or many readers about my
suggestion for short presentations (perhaps to be called "presented abstracts")
for the ETHOS 2008 meeting about 80 days from now.

I hereby volunteer to serve on the Program Committee.

I will be in India until almost Christmas, but will be in the USA all of January
2008 and will be available to participate in the committee duties.

Let's all think about how we can make ETHOS 2008 an even better conference than
the great ones of previous years.

1.  More emphasis on issues, less on show-and-tell of specific projects
2.  More emphasis on getting ourselves organized to get the stoves-job done, and
less time with background info.
3.  More effort on prepared substantive presentations in written/graphic form
(about which a lively short presentation can drive home the key findings), and
less time allocated to PowerPoints that require so many minutes to be read to
the audience (and the PowerPoints are then also provided on the Conference CD
-- so that people really did not need to attend the conference if they can wait
a month or two).
4.  An allocation of time (total of 2 or 3 hours?) for some pre-organized work
sessions that will report back to the plenary group.

Discussion, please.   (Brenda and John, please respond that you have received
this message for PCIA.)

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
For my gasifier stoves info, go to:
http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson





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