Small Conferences/Symposia

Allow co-sponsorship with other conferences if the meeting in question is not within a month of the SIGGRAPH annual conference. (Feb 23, 1978)

There is to be a window of +/- 90 days around the annual conference date during which other graphics activities are not encouraged. (Feb 4, 1984)

Guidelines for SIGGRAPH Support of Small conferences, Workshops and Special events printed on pg. 43. (Aug 21, 1986)

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Guidelines for SIGGRAPH Support of Small Conferences, Workshops and Special Events

The SIGGRAPH executive committee considers the support of small conferences, workshops and special events (herein after called activities) that relate to computer graphics technology to be an appropriate function of the organization. There are two types of support SIGGRAPH can offer:

  - Cooperation. where SIGGRAPH lends its name in support of

    the activity, but does not assume financial responsibility.

  - Co-sponsorship, where SIGGRAPH both lends its name to

    and shares in the financial success or loss of the activity. The

    degree of involvement is defined in the sponsorship agreement.

In both instances, the activity must make concessions for SIGGRAPH members; specifically, SIGGRAPH members must quality for an activity's member rates.

The executive committee welcomes modest requests for financial or other support for such activities provided:

1. The written request succinctly documents for the activity:

   a. The aims and objectives, including an explanation as to

      how this activity relates to and is in harmony with the

      aims and objectives of SIGGRAPH

   b. An agenda or program outline

   c. An explicit statement of the proposed commitment for

      SIGGRAPH in terms of monetary or other support

   d. The deadline for a decision from the executive committee

2. The written request is accompanied by a completed copy of the ACM Technical Meeting Request Form.

3. The documentation clearly demonstrates thai the dates of the planned activity are not in conflict with scheduled activities of SIGGRAPH or major conferences of the ACM .

4. The timing of the request is such that it can be considered by the executive committee at its regularly scheduled quarterly meetings, and the SIGGRAPH membership can be notified (in the regular issues of SIGGRAPH publications) in time to fully participate.

5. The activity is not being conducted for profit or the promotion of commercial products or services.

6. Participation in the activity is open. Generally, support will not be considered for conferences at which attendance is by invitation or at which the allowable attendance will be manipulated so as to achieve the effect of attendance selection. There may be special activities which require a selected attendance and which otherwise qualify for SIGGRAPH support. In these rare cases, the burden is on the requestor to fully specify and justify the need for and mechanics of the selection process. In all cases, the ACM policies and procedures regarding restricted-attendance meetings (section 8.7.2.1.6) must be observed.

7. SIGGRAPH is most interested in helping launch new and special interest activities. Requests for activities which are being repeated or which represent mature technologies are discouraged. Requests for continual ongoing financial support will usually not be considered.

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SIGGRAPH will only co-sponsor conferences that publish their conference proceedings in their entirety. (May 8, 1988)

SIGGRAPH and CMCCS enter into an agreement to avoid publication of identical or similar papers at their respective conferences. No paper is to be accepted at both conferences. (May 8, 1988)

Small conferences mission statement on page. 117. (June 1990)

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Small Conference Mission Statement from June 1990

Part of the mission of the ACM SIGGRAPH is to further the state of the art in all aspects of computer graphics and to disseminate this new information to its membership and to the computer graphics community. One method of completing this is through dedicated focused workshops, conferences and other events.

Funds may be made available to support such events. A request for support may be made to the small conferences coordinator. The request must include a short description of the event, expected size, expected benefit to the computer graphics community and proposed time, duration and location. The criteria used in determining sponsorship:

1. That the event have a relevant computer graphics component.

2. That the event not be for the direct financial or professional benefit

   of an individual or profit-making organization.

3. That the successful execution of the event will reflect well upon ACM

   and SIGGRAPH.

4. That the event will not be in direct competition with either the

   SIGGRAPH annual conference or other sponsored events.

Of course, the final criteria is the availability of funds from within SIGGRAPH. The SIGGRAPH executive committee has already approved some expenditure of funds to support qualified proposals (see next page). SIGGRAPH will provide a subsidy to selected conferences and workshops to strengthen the student program. The SIGGRAPH editor-in-chief may elect to publish some proceedings in Computer Graphics.

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ACM SIGGRAPH will not sponsor, co-sponsor or be "in cooperation with" any general computer graphics conference that occurs within 30 days of the annual SIGGRAPH conference, unless there are specific reasons why doing so would be of benefit to SIGGRAPH. (January 9-10, 1993)

That SIGGRAPH suspend the rule forbidding sponsorship, co-sponsorship, or in-cooperation status with another conference occurring within 30 days of the annual conference for the specific case of co-locating co-sponsored Eurographics/SIGGRAPH workshops with the annual conference. This would apply to at most two workshops at any one conference. (July 25, 1998)

To set up small conferences as a separate SIGGRAPH business unit with any conference surpluses going into the fund and with budgets to support such conferences coming from the fund, and to seed the fund with $50,000. (December 5-7, 1997)