[sigcomm] attendance policies for SIGCOMM-affiliated events

[Christophe Diot]

2 comments:

- you might want to make a differenciation between limited attendance and 
selected attendance. IMW was limited (FCFS with priority to authors) and hotnet 
is selected (PC chairs chose the participants). I am in favor of not allowing at 
all the selected attendance workshop.

- writing the motivation will only convince those who want to be convinced. can 
you imagine someone writting: the goal is to create a clickish workshop ... :-) 
you can find the best politically correct writing, selected attendance will 
always look clickish.

- we need to mention if the exec committee can decide not to support a closed 
attendance workshop.

Jennifer Rexford wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Discussion on the attendance-policy issues seems to have wound down.  Vern
> and I compared notes and took a stab at formulating the SIG's stance on the
> issue: 
> 
> "SIGCOMM strongly encourages workshops and conferences to have open
> attendance but also recognizes that some events benefit from attendance
> restrictions, particularly in the first year or two.  Although most
> SIGCOMM-sponsored events will have open attendance, the SIG may also sponsor
> a small number of limited-attendance workshops or conferences, though the
> attendance policy should be transparent and fair.  Limited-attendance events
> should state their attendance policy, and the motivations behind the policy,
> in the conference materials (e.g., the conference Web site, the call for
> papers, and ACM conference approval forms)."  
> 
> To start moving toward closure, let's have a last call for comments, in the
> form of alternative wordings or directions for the *SIG's* stance on the
> issue, where we want to strike a good balance between the desire to support
> autonomy/flexibility for conference organizers and support the values of the
> SIG as part of a professional society.  
> 
> Thanks much...
> 
> -- Jen and Vern
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigcomm-bounces at postel.org [mailto:sigcomm-bounces at postel.org] On
> Behalf Of Jennifer Rexford
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:49 PM
> To: sigcomm at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [sigcomm] attendance policies for SIGCOMM-affiliated events
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> FYI, I checked with ACM SIG Services on ACM's policies about restricted 
> attendance events.  The policy is rather vague, though such events are 
> indeed permitted.  See below...  I've asked for some clarifications but 
> expect that the SIGs are permitted a fair amount of discretion to decide 
> whether to hold such meetings, and what policies (if any) to have on how 
> attendance is determined.
> 
> -- Jen
> 
> ACM Policy on Restricted-Attendance Meetings
> 
> Restricted-Attendance Meetings, as an extension of ACM conferences or 
> workshops, and for circumstances in which it is clearly desirable to 
> hold attendance down to the number of people who will be expected to 
> contribute to the results of the session, shall have a place in ACM 
> activities. In all cases, plans for such meetings shall be publicized 
> and at least the opportunity to request permission to attend shall be 
> extended to all members of cognizant ACM subgroups (such as SIGs and 
> Chapters). For meetings of potentially broad general interest, such 
> opportunity shall be extended to the entire membership of the ACM.
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