I take a look at the calendar Almost all conferences are well known among my fellows (and a large number of them are very well rated in my country - Brazil).
I can't really say if 87 events is to much, to few or just right. Observing the calendar, less then half of moths have weeks that do not preset at least one event. >From now, new events will incur on concurrency date. This may be a "yellow flag". (my 2 cents/inf) On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Prof. Adam Wolisz <[email protected]> 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. > > *Now we 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 > > > > > -- ------- Prof. Dr. Alex B. Vieira http://www.4nerd.net _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
