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1 Listservers
- 1.1 Croquet-Developer
- 1.2 Croquet-User
2 Conferences
- 2.1 The Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008)
3 Working Groups

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Listservers

The Croquet Consortium currently maintains two public listservers

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Croquet-Developer

Croquet-Developer is for technical discussion and problem solving among programmers working with Croquet.

To view the Croquet-Developer archive, click here.
To subscribe to Croquet-Developer, click here.
To send email: croquet-dev at duke.edu.
To view the GMANE copy of the archive, click here.
To set up a newsreader from GMANE, click here. (note: only works in supported browsers)

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Croquet-User

Croquet-User is for non-technical discussion around Croquet and its application in education, industry, and entertainment.

To view the Croquet-User archive, click here.
To subscribe to Croquet-User, click here.
To send email: croquet-user at duke.edu
To view the GMANE copy of the archive, click here.
To set up a newsreader from GMANE, click here. (note: only works in supported browsers)

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Conferences

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The Sixth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2008)

Over the past several years this has been the primary conference for disseminating information about Croquet and Croquet-related activities.

January 14-16, 2008, Poitiers, France http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-08/

Oraganized by Kyoto University Global COE (Centers of Excellence) Program: Informatics Education and Research Center for Knowledge-Circulating Society European Smalltalk User Group Espace Mende`s France Viewpoints Research Institute Impara

SCOPE

Computers, networks, and other forms of technology are now pervasive in our information-based society. However, most users still function as passive consumers of technology. To evolve into a true knowledge society, it is critical that we transform computer-based human activities to engage users in the active process of creating, connecting, and collaborating together.

The C5 conference is for researchers, technology developers, educators, and technology users who are concerned about developing and enabling human-oriented creation, connection, and collaboration processes. C5 is an international forum for presenting ongoing work as well as new work currently under development and for discussing future needs and directions in creative computing and multimedia authoring environments. We welcome equally the submission of technical papers and practitioner/experience reports for paper presentations. In addition, we are adding a workshop track for the third day of the conference and are soliciting proposals for interactive workshops.

For the first time hosted in Europe, this conference builds on the successes and high standards held by previous C5 conferences : 2003-2005, 2007 in Kyoto (Japan), 2006 in Berkeley (USA).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include but not limited to

Development and applications of collaboration tools and environments
User collaboration using 3D, multimedia, and animation objects
Technologies for creating educational environments
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL)
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed work, and virtual teaming
Hybrid technology activities, such as scientific experiments, instrumentation, robots, and game playing
Development of applications/content for non traditional learning environments, e.g. mentoring, peer-to-peer, "teacherless" environments (in developing countries), low cost and sustainable technologies, e.g., $100 laptop
Applications and tools for education from K-12 through higher education, system design by children, digital library and search environment for children

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

C5 2008 invites submissions of long papers in the following categories:

Theoretical papers
Case studies, experiments reports
Bringing theory into practice or practice into theory papers focus on building a bridge between practices and theories in the field of C5.

Full papers must report original work that has not been previously published. Papers must present reports of significant work in research, development and applications with regards to one or more of the conference topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed by a distinguished international program committee.

A full paper with 8 page limit formatted in two columns and 10 point font should be submitted by the paper submission deadline. The papers are reviewed by the program comittee and authors will be notified about acceptance. Accepted authors have to submit a camera ready version of the full paper with 8 page limit by the camera-ready copy deadline.

Papers should follow the formatting instructions provided by 8.5" x 11", Two-Column Format of "IEEE Computer Society Press - Proceedings Author Guidelines" (please refer to INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS in Conference Publishing Service). Submitted papers and camera-ready papers should be sent electronically through our online submission site (will be available soon). The PDF, Postscript and MS-WORD formats are acceptable.

PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary version of the proceedings will be distributed during the conference. The formal version of the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and sent to authors after the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors needs to attend the conference and give presentation, otherwise the paper will not be included in the formal proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 30, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2007 Full paper camera-ready copies: December 15, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Co-Chairs

Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
Makoto Nagao, National Diet Library, Japan

Advisory Chairs

Kim Rose, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan

Conference Co-Chairs

Benay Dara-Abrams, DALaboratories, USA
Serge Stinckwich, GREYC, Universite' de Caen/CNRS, France

Program Co-Chairs

Rieko Kadobayashi, National Institute of Information and

Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan
Rick McGeer, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

Local Arrangement Chairs

Thierry Pasquier, Espace Mendes France, France
Jean-Francois Cerisier, University of Poitiers, France
Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France

Publicity and Publication Chair

Hideyuki Takada, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Financial Chair

Samuel Besson, Espace Mendes France, France

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Working Groups

The following sections are meant for collecting the notes, meeting minutes, and associated working documents of the Croquet Consortium's working groups.

Action item you can take right now: Sign up for one or more working groups by adding your name to its list of members.
Working groups should create additional subpages and associated talk pages as required to conduct their business.
It is envisioned that, in addition to use of this wiki, working groups will communicate regularly by telephone conferences, Skype voice or chat sessions or other chat fora, and email threads, as well as physical meetings as necessary and possible. In the case of voice conferences, it is suggested that one participant be appointed as note taker, so the major points of discussion can be captured for posting under this hierarchy. Chat sessions may be posted verbatum. (Editing such logs for clarity is okay).
Please post announcements of all open invitation meetings and events on the Calendar.

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Technical Committee

Members:

Croquet Consortium Developers

Past Attendees:

Andreas Raab, David A. Smith, Ed Boyce, Howard Stearns, Joshua Gargus, Greg Nuyens, Darius Clarke, Liz Wendland, Peter Moore, Philippe Van Nedervelde, Mark P. McCahill, Dave Faught,

Meetings are held every other week at 2:30 EDT = 1:30 CDT = 11:30 PDT

Meeting Notes TC April 6, 2007 TC April 20, 2007 TC May 4, 2007 TC May 18, 2007 TC June 1, 2007 TC June 15, 2007 TC June 29, 2007 TC July 13, 2007 TC July 27, 2007 TC August 10, 2007 TC August 24, 2007 TC August 31, 2007 TC September 7, 2007 TC September 21, 2007 TC October 5, 2007 TC October 19, 2007 TC November 2, 2007