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

Joe Touch touchatisi.edu
Mon Oct 29 14:16:19 EDT 2012



 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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