[Tccc] ComSoc technical cosponsorship - r...
Joe Touch
touchatisi.edu
Tue Jun 4 12:45:46 EDT 2013
FWIW, that number decreased substantially exactly because of the
processes I helped put in place last year.
Joe
On 6/4/2013 12:48 AM, Prof. Adam Wolisz wrote:
> Dear all,
> here come the hard numbers(count done on June 2nd, 2013
> using http://www.comsoc.org/calendar)
> *
> **This Year (July 12 - June 13) ComS**oc co- sponsored
> 87 events **including 31 Comsoc Portfolio Conferences.
>
> *Nowwe can start thinking: Is that to much for our area? to few? just
> right?
>
> best
> adam
>
> **
> On 03.06.2013 19:12, Joe Touch wrote:
>> 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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