[Tccc] ComSoc technical cosponsorship - r...
Joe Touch
touchatisi.edu
Mon Jun 3 13:13:46 EDT 2013
Hi, all,
I completely agree that we need to be diligent in how many conferences
we endorse.
Over the past few years, here's what I've done to try to impact that:
- created TCCC criteria for endorsement that considers overload,
and documents the requirements so they can be applied more
consistently
http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/conferences/endorsement.html
- revised the ComSoc TCS process to clearly indicate the review
criteria and which ones are critical
http://www.comsoc.org/files/Conferences/TCSRP.pdf
this includes the suggestion that at TC should endorse
a meeting only when it can speak for the quality of
the entire conference
- revised the TCS endorsement process so that a single TC member
can be listed as monitoring at most two meetings per calendar
year
Note that most of these involved more process, not less. The point of
process is not to constrain things, though - it's to make the ComSoc
more a place where consistency is expected, where expectations are
clear, and where decisions can be publicly scrutinized and discussed.
So overall, I think the TCCC has been doing a good job at this. But
we're just one voice in a very large ComSoc.
NOTE 1: ICC is coming up very shortly; if you are attending or even in
the area, and you care about these issues, I encourage you to attend the
ComSoc management meetings and speak your mind.
NOTE 2: ComSoc elections are underway. If you care about these issues,
then press the candidates on their stand and consider their positions on
these issues in your votes.
Joe
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