ACM SIGGRAPH EC Meeting

May 2-3, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA

Attendance: Scott Owen, Alyn Rockwood, Rick Barry, Alain Chesnais, Jeff Jortner, Jim Kilmer, Scott Lang, Kathryn Saunders, Peter Schröder, Thierry Frey, Jackie White, Erin Butler, Bob Niehaus, Gregg Talley
Guests: Tony Baylis, Andrian Sng

Electronic Motions

To approve the ECRF request for $179,900
(Proposal includes funding gidance, oversight, and traing for SIGGRAPH Asia 2008)
For: Rockwood (motion), Saunders (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Schröder

To approve the FY09 budget subject to a 2% variation with the following changes: remove Graphite from Small Conferences, put International Committee in a separate column managed by Communications, and move S3 out of the President’s budget with $6,000 in a Travel line.
For: Jortner (motion), Rockwood (second), Barry, Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Saunders, Schröder

To approve the Digital Content Association of Japan (DCAJ) affiliation agreement..
For: Lang (motion), Barry (second), Owen, Schroder, Jortner, Saunders, Rockwood, Kilmer

To appoint Jacquelyn Ford Morie as the Chair of the Digital Arts Committee for a three year term.
3/24/2008
For: Owen (motion), Schröder (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Lang
Abstain: Rockwood, Saunders

The ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee commends Joe Marks and the SIGGRAPH
2007 Conference Committee for their outstanding work in making SIGGRAPH 2007 a technical, creative, and financial success.
3/12/2008
For:Owen (motion), Lang (second), Schröder, Barry, Kilmer
Abstain: Rockwood, Saunders

To approve the following new definition of the Conference Advisory Group (CAG)  and SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group (SACAG):

"The CAG is comprised of the CAG Chair, the immediate past and current

years' conference chairs, any future conference chairs who have been appointed and confirmed, one representative from the EC, the Chief Staff Executive (as a nonvoting member), and any other members - at - large as appointed by the CAG."

"The SACAG is comprised of the SACAG Chair, the immediate past and current years' conference chairs, any future conference chairs who have been appointed and confirmed, one representative from the EC, the Chief Staff Executive (as a nonvoting member), and any other members - at - large as appointed by the SACAG." 2/28/2008

For: Kilmer (motion), Schröder (second), Barry, Jortner, Owen, Rockwood, Saunders
Abstain: Lang

To approve Tony Apodaca as Courses Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.For: Lang (motion), Saunders(second), Rockwood, Owen, Barry, Kilmer, Schröder, Jortner

To approve the relationship between CGSociety.org and ACM SIGGRAPH for
the purposes of enhancing student programs and service offerings.
2/22/2008For: Kilmer (motion), Rockwood (second), Barry, Saunders, Schröder, Owen, Lang

Abstain: Jortner

To approve the January 2008 EC meeting minutes.

For: Owen (motion), Schröder (second), Barry, Kilmer, Lang, Rockwood, Saunders, Jortner

Motions made during the meeting:

To approve the final SA ’08 budget

For: Rockwood (motion), Saunders (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Schröder

To accept Seoul, Korea as the conference site for SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

For: Rockwood (motion), Schröder (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Saunders

To approve the SIGGRAPH Asia CAF awards: Best of Show and up to 5 juried awards.

For: Rockwood (motion), Jortner (second), Barry, Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Saunders, Schröder

To appoint the SIGGRAPH Asia Chief Staff Executive an ex-officio member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee.

For: Rockwood (motion), Jortner (second), Barry, Lang, Owen, Saunders, Schröder

Abstain: Kilmer

To approve the creation of an External Relations Committee with a structure that would include all standing committee chairs or their designates as members and the President and/or Vice President.

For: Lang (motion), Rockwood (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Owen, Saunders, Schröder

To establish the Small Conference Committee with one chairperson. The Treasurer will be a member of the committee.

For: Barry (motion), Jortner (second), Kilmer, Lang, Owen, Rockwood, Saunders, Schröder

To approve John Hughes as Technical Awards Chair.

For: Schröder (motion), Rockwood (second), Barry, Jortner, Kilmer, Owen, Saunders, Lang