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Membership Statistics:

ACM SIGGRAPH Members for selected countries paid through November 2001(total ACM SIGGRAPH membership as of then was about 6610)

Note: This is NOT a complete list of international members.

• Japan: 331
• Canada: 300
• Germany: 230
• UK: 98
• Australia: 88
• South Korea: 76
• France: 60
• Sweden: 57
• China: 11 (there are some Hong Kong listed here)
• Hong Kong: 28 (but most Hong Kong residents are here)
• Switzerland: 39
• Spain: 39
• Italy: 31
• Norway: 21
• India: 21
• Austria: 20
• Denmark: 20
• Israel: 19
• Greece: 18
• Finland: 18
• Belgium: 17
• Ireland: 16
• New Zealand: 16
• Portugal: 13
• Mexico: 13
• Hungary: 8
• South Africa: 7
• Poland: 4
• Holland: 3
• Russia: 0 (kind of surprising, huh?)
• Czech Republic: 0

Report on ACM HQ Meeting

We had an orgnaization meeting with ACM about how to work better together at ACM Headquarters on January 14, 2002. Judy, Alan, and Alain Chesnais met with ACM staff member from several areas.

We discussed financial management and reporting, in particular creating an action item to revisit cost centers to see if they correspond to current practice.

ACM is still looking at the issue of SIG-only membership cards across ACM. However, as an interim solution, we can immediately send new members ACM membership cards that say "affiliate" and "ACM SIGGRAPH" on them. This would be accompanied by a welcoming letter from an EC member.

We met with the new media communications person at ACM, Ginny Gold. Ginny has a lot of experience with other technical groups, such as AT&T. We talked about the need for her to coordinate what she does with Sheila Hoffmeyer (so that she and Sheila know what the other is already promoting, not so that Sheila would be asked to do organizational PR.) So that Ginny can understand all our committees and what we do that might be newsworthy, we think she should attend S2002, so she could sit in on the meetings that take place there (education, chapter, public policy, project grants,etc.) and also get a feeling of the conference. We also discussed the need for an ACM SIGGRAPH volunteer to be the liaison to Ginny and get information to her on events that might be of interest.

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Leo hourvitz@siggraph.org