http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2000/conf/outrageous.htm
A delightful call for participation for the Outrageous Opinions Session...
	that also includes the history of the OO from 1995-1999.

Also, a memo I wrote in 2003 for the committee, while looking for an 
Outrageous Opinions chair:

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The OO will be held on Thursday Aug 28th from 18:35-19:35, immediately
after the SIGCOMM business meeting 17:30-18:30 in the same room (i.e.
the conference venue).  Those who don't want to attend the business meeting
will go outside and mingle and refreshments would start ideally at 18:00
(a simple drink (beer/water/wine and a very inexpensive snack).

We are still looking for an OO chair.  I like Jon's idea of asking Mac.
Note: Burkhard is willing to write up a description and help out (such as being
a member of a judge's panel etc).  

The first challenge is to come up with a theme.  What do you think of
playing off of the festival idea.... "knights in shining armor", festival
styled flags, or whatever you think of as an ancient European festival...
(bobbing for apples, wenches, the predecessor to "cotton candy", ooompah
band....????)   The caterer and the emcee (?and panel if there is one?) could 
be dressed up with some dimestore armor.  
OR
we could not have a theme.  I don't think 2001 had one, Michalis just 
called up one person after another... and we didn't lose any time to themes. 

The 2nd challenge is:  we hope to get a few serious outrageous opinions 
as well as funny.  I suggest asking the Workshops to generate an outrageous
opinion as part of their workshop ;-)   You don't have to accept all people
who want to sign up.

The 3rd challenge is to keep it to an hour so that people can make dinner 
reservations for 20:00  and to not let someone go on too long.
So, I suggest that we limit the number of participants (if needed) and
have a timekeeper (3?-5 minutes), and have a limit on the # of slides (2?)...  
Some have commented that occasionally OO presentors haven't been funny and
it's painful to listen to them for so long.  (in 1998 Dave Oran and I had
a panel that could strike a gong and banish someone long before their time
was up - although some good folks were gonged).  

4) In 2001 did we even award a winner? or just enjoy them all... plus I
   don't think that there was a prize????

So, what do we need????
a) DAVE/JON:  an OO chair's name for the web page

b) OO CHAIR/BURKHARD: a paragraph describing the OO (possibly the theme/format,
    --- although sometimes that takes a while to gel)
   
c) the OO chair should send out publicity to sigcomm2003ex, sigcommex,
	and to tccc.  I don't believe that we have the option of announcing
	this to end2end, although that was my only form of publicity in 98.

	If you write (b) by the end of thiw weekend, then we can get it sent 
	out by Andreas Terzis to the sigcomm mailing list for August... 

d) I will ask Alex to highlight the new additions to the program:
        OO, the student dinner, the Heidelberg details, and the directions to 
	the venue, and the registration desk hours on the web page 

e) plus we'll send out one email to all registrants when all of this is 
	on the web page.

Thanks, Chris
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