ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee Meeting
Saturday-Sunday, January 30-31, 2010
Atlanta, GA

Minutes

Attendance: Marie-Paule Cani, Rob Cook, Paul Debevec, Jeff Jortner, Jim Foley, Scott Lang, Scott Owen, Kathryn Saunders, Peter Schröder, Jackie White, Ginger Ignatoff, Erin Butler, Gregg Talley, Bob Niehaus, Daniel Schmidt
Guests: Pat Ryan, Jim Kilmer

Electronic Motions (August, 2009 – January, 2010)

The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee commends Ronen Barzel and the SIGGRAPH 2009 Conference Committee for their outstanding work in making SIGGRAPH 2009 a technical and creative success.
For: For: Lang (motion), Saunders (second), Cani, Cook, Foley, Jortner, Owen, Schroder
Against: Debevec

To approve the minutes of the ACM SIGGRAPH EC August meeting.
For: Owen (motion), Schroder (second), Cani, Cook, Foley, Saunders
Abstain: Debevec, Lang, Jortner

Starting with ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol. 29, no. 3 (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010), the annual conference special issues of ACM Transactions on Graphics shall be published electronically - on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or other appropriate electronic media - and in the ACM Digital Library.
Paper copies will be available on an extra-cost basis at a price intended to recover printing costs.
For: Foley (motion), Cani (second), Cook, Debevec, Jortner, Lang, Owen, Saunders, Schroder

To approve Drew Davidson as the SIGGRAPH 2013 Conference Chair.
For: Lang (motion), Saunders (second), Cani, Foley, Owen, Schroder
Abstain: Cook, Debevec, Jortner

Motions Approved at Meeting

The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee commends Masa Inakage and the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Conference Committee for their outstanding work in making SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 a technical and creative success.
For: Foley, Owen, Jortner, Lang, Cani, Cook, Sanders, Schroder, Debevec

Motion to approve SIGGRAPH 2010 budget with changes discussed.

Motion to approve the SIGGRAPH 2011 preliminary budget.
For: Lang (motion), Jortner (second), Cani, Cook, Debevec, Owen, Saunders, Schroder
Absent: Foley

Motion to approve SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 budget.
For: Schroder (motion), Jortner (second), Cook, Debevec, Owen, Saunders, Schroder
Against: Foley
Abstain: Cani

Motion to continue SIGGRAPH Asia after 2010 as a smaller, lower risk conference that includes at a minimum the Papers Program with the current Papers process.
For: Cook (motion), Jortner (second), Cani, Debevec, Foley, Owen, Saunders, Schroder
Against: Lang

Motion to approve the SACAG restructuring plan.
For: Lang (motion), Jortner (second), Cani, Cook, Debevec, Foley, Owen, Saunders, Schroder

Motion to accept ACM SIGGRAPH Award Policies.
For: Foley (motion), Cook (second), Cani, Debevec, Jortner, Lang, Owen, Saunders, Schroder