What might have been
This _should_ be a celebratory blog, full of the joys that I have actually managed to finish my conference paper on time. This _should_ be written whilst downing a well-earned glass of wine.
But it isn't.
The conference that I'm trying to submit to uses "Easychair" to manage submissions. IT. DOESN'T.WORK.
Myself and at least two other colleagues simply can't login. I checked to see if an over-zealous individual had set the deadline to be something ridiculous like 6pm, by trying to login to another conference that had definitely expired and the error message is different.
Basically you have to apply for a login, and the application system is knackered. Trouble is of course, that unless it unknackers before midnight, I'm screwed.
I will now make it my life's mission, at every conference and every meeting, to persuade as many people as possible that this system should never be employed for any conference. I have an entire career with which to carry out my campaign of victimisation. We'll see who goes bust first!
But it isn't.
The conference that I'm trying to submit to uses "Easychair" to manage submissions. IT. DOESN'T.WORK.
Myself and at least two other colleagues simply can't login. I checked to see if an over-zealous individual had set the deadline to be something ridiculous like 6pm, by trying to login to another conference that had definitely expired and the error message is different.
Basically you have to apply for a login, and the application system is knackered. Trouble is of course, that unless it unknackers before midnight, I'm screwed.
I will now make it my life's mission, at every conference and every meeting, to persuade as many people as possible that this system should never be employed for any conference. I have an entire career with which to carry out my campaign of victimisation. We'll see who goes bust first!
posted by Bob at 9:57 PM
2 Comments:
You still have 50 minutes to go... any luck yet? The picture on the easychair website takes the piss a bit doesnt it? http://www.easychair.org/images/easythrone.jpg
I hadn't found that picture... it turns out that the problems weren't necessarily with the easychair software - it was because someone in charge of an INTERNATIONAL conference hadn't grasped the concept of time zones. The easychair server was still accepting submissions, but the thing that generated the logins had effectively been turned off at midnight... in Korea. I got a rather grumpy email from one of the organisers saying "I will open submissions for one more day" as if it was a favour rather than admit that he'd closed the bloody system early!
Anyway - off to Ikea to buy plant pots, (my god, I think I've grown up!)
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