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The venue is finaly over and I’m back in Berlin since a couple of days. Some final thoughts:
- I may be biased, but, it appeared to me that the focus of this years KiVS moved from presenting “blueprints” and considerations on layer 21 down to the network layer again by also taking into account more theoretical work, which is a good thing.
- For the first time, they introduced a software award consisting of two categories; the awarded the best software written by a student and the best software written by a group. Matt Welch recently pointed out that application papers and software in general get much less credit then they should and are less regarded than “hard” research. From this perspective, I like the idea of having a software award in order to make these outcomes of research more visible within the community.
- I like the idea of putting proceedings on an USB memory stick drive. Unfortunately, KiVS only did this for workshop proceedings, which have been published in an open access journal in adition.
- The KiVS badge included a ticked allowing unrestricted usage of the public transportation in the time when the venue was held. While attaching USB stick drives becomes more common, I’m not aware of any other venue having something similar. (Although I also learned than, up to a certain distance, walking might be faster than using trams and other means of public transportation)
