[TOS] FIE: submission deadline coming up

[Mel Chua]

The FIE submission deadline (http://fie-conference.org/fie2011/) is 
Monday - who's submitting, who's going, any last-minute 
notes/collaborations you want the list to know about?

Sebastian and I were talking just now - we (Red Hatters) don't have any 
submissions in the pipeline and are a bit lost still when it comes to 
proposing academic-style talks. (Thanks tremendously to Heidi, Greg, 
Clif, and Matt for having me in the panel last year!)

So we were instead thinking about getting a booth for TOS: 
http://fie-conference.org/fie2011/Pages/exhibit.htm - it's $1600 USD, 
but includes a full registration (normally about $500 for IEEE/ASEE 
members) and gives us the ability to buy "booth worker" registrations 
for other people at $350, so the cash outlay is really not so bad. We 
could semi-pitch TOS as a "society" of sorts, or a disciplinary commons, 
or a community of practice, or whatever would make the most sense to the 
organizers. We have until August 12 to decide (then the rate jumps +$300).

Thoughts? Good investment/role to play, given that a number of profs 
here tend to show up at FIE to present and this might be a nice 
nucleation point/supplement? If this isn't the best use of our 
resources, what would be a better one?

--Mel