Executive Committee/Organization

Impose a limitation of two consecutive terms for any person holding the same elected position in SIGGRAPH. (October 24, 1987)

Note: This was changed in the bylaws to no more than 4 years in 1999.

Note: This was later changed in the bylaws to a single 3 year term in 2000

No one can serve in a volunteer capacity while being paid by SIGGRAPH funds. Exceptions must be approved by the EC. (February 13, 1988)

ACM SIGGRAPH Special Projects policies printed pg. 283-284. (Scanned and saved as separate document) (May 8, 1988)

Name change from ACM SIGGRAPH Special Projects to ACM SIGGRAPH Project Grants. (August 2001)

Public relations function is responsibility of editor-in-chief. (August 6, 1988)

SIGGRAPH recommends amending ACM bylaws to prohibit the practice of officers of viable SIGs to extend their terms in office. (October 5-7, 1990)

Each item of SIGGRAPH materials shall have an internal price, which shall be the member price (in the case of conference materials, the advance member price). This price shall be billed internally to the receiver of the material and credited to the producer of the materials. (April 11-12, 1992)

Change in the scope of the SIGGRAPH organization, as given in the bylaws, from "man/machine communication" to "human/machine communication." (April 11-12, 1992)

To request that SIG Board and ACM Council approve an amendment to SIGGRAPH bylaws that establishes the starting date for all members of SIGGRAPH EC as the first day following the annual SIGGRAPH conference in the year that member is elected. This will be July 1 if no annual conference is held. (August 1, 1992)

Note: Not approved by SIG Board and ACM Council

[ACM]

SIGGRAPH requested that ACM contact the SIGGRAPH Chair to discuss any activities that ACM is considering to sponsor in any way that involve computer graphics or computer graphics representatives. (December 4-5, 1993)

[ACM]

The EC directs the Program Director to bring all projects/proposals that involve SIGGRAPH to our attention as soon as she becomes aware of them. (September 25, 1994)

(Note – Background: After Donna Baglio was approached by a CD publisher about donating a portion of his profits to SIGGRAPH for educational purposes, he was asked to submit a proposal to the Director for Education. he did not, but stated on the CD that a portion of the profits would e donated to the SIGGRAPH educational fund to support scholarships for conference attendees.)

[ACM]

Remind ACM that SIGGRAPH requests that ACM contact the SIGGRAPH Chair to discuss any activities that ACM is considering that involve computer graphics or computer graphics representatives. (August 10, 1996)

[General EC Policies]

Policy for official SIGGRAPH responses to questions, pg. 216. (December 4-5, 1993)

Members of the SIGGRAPH EC and CPC are required to be members of SIGGRAPH. (September 25, 1994)

(Note: Now, members of SIGGRAPH EC are required by ACM to be members of both SIGGRAPH and ACM.)

EC endorsed a report that defines the research agenda for computer graphics, produced through the Public Policy Task Force. (December 2, 1995)

EC voted to hold monthly conference calls.( August 9, 1997)

EC unanimously decided to continue the monthly conference calls August 14, 1999)

To approve the offer to Judson Rosebush on the right of first refusal to write any SIGGRAPH published book based on the story arc and script he developed for The Story of Computer Graphics documentary in exchange for SIGGRAPH owning the derivative rights for the story arc and script. (July 25, 1998)

That EC members should have two guest passes to the annual conference, to be included in the annual budget. (December 12-13, 1998)

All unsuccessful candidates for EC elections will receive conference access (with no materials), if they do not already receive one, to be budgeted from the Nominations Committee budget. (March 11, 2000)

The background and priorities of the strategic plan (http://www.siggraph.org/gen-info/Strategic_Plan.html) approved as a working document for setting priorities. (April 12, 2000)

EC job manuals are expected from all EC members. (May 5, 2001)

siggraph.org is now only a mail forwarding machine. Any ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer or member can obtain an email forwarding address. Shell accounts on siggraph.org are given only to volunteers or contractors with a need to manage information on the machine. (November 10-11, 2000)

We must make sure that any amendments to a proposal are documented when an amended proposal is approved. (February 13, 2002)

It was proposed to change the official term of Executive Committee offices from July 1^st to 2 or 3 weeks post conference. Motion Approved:To accept the proposal and move forward with a task force to deal with a transition plan and submit the bylaws change during the 2005 election cycle.(April 14, 2004).

[NRC] National Research Council study proposal, for a panel on computer graphics research, approved. (March 11, 2000)

[NRC research study] Set July 1, 2003, as a deadline for the National Research Council to raise the funds for the ACM SIGGRAPH sponsored study entitled "Research Challenges in Computer Graphics". If the NRC is not successful, the seed funds ($50,000) will be returned to ACM SIGGRAPH at this time.

For the ACM SIGGRAPH President to continue to write support letters certifying professional qualifications, at the discretion of the ACM SIGGRAPH President, when we are able to verify the information. (March 11, 2000)

[NRC Research Workshop]

There was a proposal that we allow the seed money allocated for a formal National Research Council (NRC) Panel on Computer Graphics to be used for a workshop to be held this fall. The details of this proposal are in the minutes from the May 2003 Executive Committee minutes.

Research workshop approved (June 4, 2003)

CRA-W Mentoring Project We were asked to co-sponsor a mentoring project proposed for SIG Discretionary Funds by the CRA-W, the Computer Research Association group that focuses on women in computing. We felt that the proposal did not address what some of us viewed as the main issues and that a project that only benefited a few students did not gain as much as other projects might. We are not in favor of support for this proposal. (September 24, 2003)

The Traveling Art Show program and its accompanying responsibilities are moved from the Vice President’s area of oversight to fall under the oversight of the Director for Chapters. (April 14, 2004)