Early conference registration is now open: Please visit https://server2.regmaster3.com/conf/ICSE09/register.php for details.

Remember to use the ICSE 09 group rate when you book your hotel reservation (http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=0804023960&key=21D66). Those interested in sharing a room can visit the ICSE09 Community Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61775967066).

See the ICSE 09 website for other information on the hotel (http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/hotel/) and your stay in Vancouver (http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/tourism/).

Tutorials are now scheduled. Please see http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/tutorials/.

The Advance Program is now available from the web site: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/advanceProgram.

We have included Research papers and SEIP papers. We will add NIER and Research Demo papers when we receive them from the respective chairs.

The pre/post events table is available. We have a place holder for tutorials - that information should be available soon. We will send another short news blurb when the tutorial schedule is finalized.

Reminder: early registration opens February 14. Hotel registration is open now.

This is a short note to alert you to approaching deadlines.

SCORE
Deadline: November 30, 2008

Research Demos
Deadline: December 5, 2008

New Ideas and Emerging Results
Deadline: December 5, 2008

Doctoral Consortium
Deadline: December 12, 2008

We have also accepted 25 workshops to be held at ICSE09. These are listed off of the ICSE 2009 home page. All are soliciting submissions so please consider participating in one or more: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/workshops/

Item 1. The Research Track has opened cyberchair to submission.
See the How to Submit page to get to cyberchair: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/

Item 2. The first set of approaching deadlines are as follows:

• Research Track: August 29
• Tutorial Proposals: September 15
• Workshop Proposals: September 15
• Software Engineering in Practice: October 10

Item 3. We are attempting to make ICSE09 as green as possible; see my welcome on the conference home page. We are looking for ideas from all angles. Glad to hear from you on this topic.

We are working hard to improve the ICSE 2009 website, here are a few of our recent additions:

The call for papers page for New Ideas and Emerging Results has been added at: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/NIER/.

The Co-Located Events page has been added at: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/CoLocatedEvents/.

An RSS feed has also been added, subscribe to our feed at: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/feed.xml.

ICSE09 WIDGETS FOR YOUR WEBSITE

Add an ICSE09 widget to your website and let people know you’ll be there. Grab the HTML code for the widget of your choice on the Spread The Word page: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/promote/.

Hotel reservation is now open! You can book online here. Check out our hotel page for more information.

Are you planning to submit a research paper to ICSE 2009? If you and your co-authors have not previously published a research paper at an ICSE conference, consider joining the ICSE 2009 Mentoring program.

You may request a mentor once anytime between April 1, 2008 and June 30, 2008. We will attempt to match you with a mentor who has previously served on the selection committee of technical papers for an ICSE conference.

The mentor will provide feedback on the structure and content of your prospective submission. The mentor may also suggest the work is more suitable for another track at ICSE. You can find out more information about the program and how to apply here.

Paper mentoring program is announced. Details will be available off Submissions page. Sign up for announcements.

Student Contest in Software Engineering (SCORE) is announced. See Student Contest tab on this page.