[iaoa-education] IAOA webinar series meeting

[Laure Vieu]

Dear all,

I'm writing to you on behalf of the IAOA Executive Council to invite you 
to contribute to develop a program of short webinars (on-line video 
lectures) on fundamentals of Ontology and its Applications.

IAOA's main educational activity, the ISAO summer school, was cancelled 
in 2020 with hopes to postpone it to September 2021. But pandemic 
uncertainties are still high and since we deemed that a proper summer 
school cannot be held on-line, ISAO 2021 is now cancelled. Of course, 
ISAO summer schools shall resume when the situation will improve.

The idea then emerged in the IAOA EC to create a program of short 
on-line lectures, possibly asking some of the lecturers who were on the 
ISAO 2020 program to contribute, as well as extending to the wealth of 
great lecturers present in our community. The webinar series could adopt 
a regular frequency, and extend over the years, possibly becoming a main 
instrument of the IAOA Education Technical Committee.

Educational activities certainly are in high demand from IAOA members. 
The EduTC needs to be revived, and the webinar series project could be 
the occasion to gather energies and make it active again.

If you are willing to join, here is a Doodle for a first meeting at the 
beginning of March to discuss this idea in more details:

https://doodle.com/poll/mknafezeu6hvkzbp?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

You can of course before then already contribute ideas by replying to 
this thread.

Looking forward to the meeting with you,

Laure Vieu

IAOA President