CAG News -

The recession in technology has strongly affected all technology related conferences and trade shows, including the SIGGRAPH Conference. To learn more about this and about how we are adapting to this situation, please read our document on the State of the SIGGRAPH Conference.

The CAG did not have any meetings in September but we were still quite busy. Three new volunteer positions have been placed under the CAG's responsibility since they deal with multi-year issues. One, the Bird's Of a Feather (BOF) Chair, is responsible for receiving requests from groups wanting to meet at the annual conference and coordinating their approval and meeting logistics. Sue Ebert will be fulfilling this role. The second new volunteer position is a Conference Endowment Chair and will be handled by Adele Newton. Adele will be looking into the possibilities for endowing different conference programs, such as Papers. The CAG recognizes this can be a long process and take several years to realize. The third position is not new, but rather is being moved from the conference committee level, and that is the Technology Outreach Chair. Anselmo Lastra has been working with different groups to try to get more diverse content into SIGGRAPH and also the possibility of co-locating with SIGGRAPH. It became obvious that some of his outreach efforts could take more than one year to come to fruition, so it made sense to do this in a multi-year fashion. He is coordinating his efforts with the ACM SIGGRAPH Vice President (Barb Helfer) who is in charge of the ACM SIGGRAPH Small Conferences subcommittee. The CAG will meet the first weekend in October in Washington, DC. Topics for discussion include:

- Contracted services

- Budget issues

- Conference access and contributor recognition

- Program reviews

Scott owen@siggraph.org