[Tccc] So long and thanks for all the fish...

Jelena Mirkovic mirkovicatisi.edu
Mon Oct 29 14:21:50 EDT 2012



 Thanks Joe and the rest of the TCCC officers for all your hard work!

Jelena  

On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Joe Touch wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> This is my final note to the list as TCCC Chair. I have been glad to 
> serve this community for the past four years.
> 
> I'd like to recognize the hard work of everyone on this list, and the 
> elected officers I've been privileged to serve with:
>       Sonia Fahmy     Vice Chair 2008-2010
>       Xiaoming Fu     Vice-Chair 2010-2012, Secretary 2008-2010
>       Martin Reisslen Secretary 2010-2012
> 
> as well as the following volunteers:
>       Joerg Ott                       conf. coordinator/monitor
>       Patrick Seeling                 web coordinator
>       R Venkatesha Prasad             ComSoc Standards Board liason
>       Fan Zhong                       Smart Grid ad-hoc committee rep.
>       Chunming Qiao & Kun Yang        Cloud ad-hoc committee reps.
> 
> Over the past four years, they and you together have enabled TCCC to:
>       - coordinated TCCC re-certification twice
>               completed recertification in 11/2009
>               2012 recertification is currently underway
>       - developed detailed meeting endorsement policies
>               substantially raising the bar for meeting endorsements
>               a subset of which the ComSoc has adopted
>       - documented our policies and procedures
>       - completely revised and updated our website
>       - posted results of our conf issues discussion online
>       - transferred the e-mail list to IEEE ComSoc servers (underway)
>       - organized four successful Computer Communications Workshops
>       - held TCCC meetings at ICC, Globecom, and Infocom conferences
>       - nominated chairs for symposia at ICC and Globecom
>       - nominated ComSoc Distinguished Lecturers and IEEE Experts
> 
> As you may recall, we also all had a detailed discussion of conference 
> operations and participation in Dec 2009-Jan 2010, addressing:
>       presentations by non-authors
>       conference cost issues
>       pay-for-publication issues
>       participation by disadvantaged authors
> This discussion resulted in changes to current ComSoc policy:
>       - all financially-sponsored ComSoc conferences now
>       require that all papers are presented by named authors
>       - most ComSoc conferences now use EDAS for publishing
>       CDROM/USB proceedings, resulting in a significant cost reduction
> 
> I'd would like to thank everyone on this list again for your support and 
> participation over the past four years. As I have noted, I will continue 
> to support the ComSoc in my role as Director of Conference Operations, 
> to represent the entire ComSoc community and ensure the best possible 
> conference experience to authors and attendees alike.
> 
> I also look forward to participating with you side-by-side in support of 
> the incoming officers, and to seeing you at the next ComSoc event.
> 
> Joe - former TCCC Chair
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