[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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