Hi, all, Below are some notes I took during our TCCC meeting in Orlando last Tuesday.
If anyone wants to claim ownership of the questions below that aren't otherwise indicated, please do - either on-list, or direct to me and I'll update the notes. Joe (TCCC Chair) --------------- TCCC Meeting March 27, 2012, 5:30-6:00pm Infocom 2012 Orlando FL chaired by Joe Touch, TCCC Chair approx. 30 attendees Joe presented slides as follows: - agenda - review of TCCC's purpose and scope - noted that the TCCC mailing list was moving to the IEEE servers shortly - review of conference endorsements - review of past and upcoming TCCC meetings - announced commencement of Outstanding Service Award contact our Secretary with nominations: Martin Reisslein <[email protected]> - reviewed tech experts, distinguished lecturer nominations - reviewed status of CCW 2012 currently planned for the end of October near Phoenix AZ - announced upcoming TCCC officer elections nominations starting June 2012, voting Oct 2012 - reviewed progress on conference issues currently TCCC procedures are being considered at the Comsoc level, including TC oversight throughout the conference process, three-valued reviews of applications (yes, don't care, no), as well as ways to differentiate IEEE local, Comsoc, and TC-endorsed meetings ---- Joe then fielded some questions from the attendees: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: How much work is it to be a TCCC officer? A: Most roles happen off-line and/or by email, and the volume is quite low (tens of minutes per month). All officers can offload tasks by delegation, just as long as they track the result. All officers can jump in and do more where/when desired, as can any TCCC member. Overall, its' not a lot of effort, and don't let that intimidate you from volunteering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: What are the officer roles? A: These are on our web pages, but a summary is: Chair - reports to the Comsoc when needed, coordinates delegation to the other officers, and makes final decisions where needed. Vice-Chair - fills in for the chair when needed. Typically helps run elections and/or coordinate nominations. Secretary - manages the configuration updates to the mailing list when asked, and updates the web pages as needed. Can also help with elections and/or coordinating nominations. All officers run TCCC meetings at IEEE Comsoc events when already present (e.g., Globecom, ICC, Infocom, CCW), and attend organizational meetings (e.g., the Tech Activities Council - TAC) when already present (at Globecom or ICC). All officers - as well as all list members - help monitor the email list for acceptable use according to our list policies and remind posters when needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: Is there a useful way to take some long discussions off the mailing list, esp. when they devolve into details? A: Current email software supports thread-tracking, and we encourage you to use that as well as filtering software to discard or filter posts and threads as you see fit. However, the email archive serves as the single repository for these entire threads; separating the info in two places detracts from being able to find the whole thread when desired. Additionally, the email list is moving from Columbia University - who have graciously hosted this list for many years and support our continued use - to the IEEE (whose resources we already support with IEEE and Comsoc dues). This move helps unify IEEE-based lists to have a uniform identity and oversight, including spam processing and archiving. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: Is there a way to reduce CFP repeated posting? A: We don't have a policy to limit reminder posts at this time. If you want to explore that, please raise it as a possibility on the TCCC mailing list. Note that we've had a number of off-topic posts, and we continually monitor that and contact offenders directly to follow our posting policies. You won't see those messages unless someone is a repeat-offender, at which point you may see a post to the list as well. The number of off-topic posts is expected to drop significantly when we move the email list to the IEEE servers. We'll have transparent forwarding in place for a period, but that forwarding will cease after a few months. We expect that many off-topic posts come from those who have learned about our list over a very long period of time and may not track our move as closely as our own community will. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: What if we had a way to "like" or "dislike" a CFP post? (Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo)? A: We could insert the necessary links into the email posts in the trailer; if a working demo of this could be developed, we would be glad to have it brought to the membership via the list and raised as something to adopt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Q: Is there a way to more clearly identify CFPs we endorse, e.g., a "seal of approval"? A: We already are working with the Comsoc to encourage meetings that are Comsoc in-cooperation to explicitly list the TCs that have endorsed a meeting. Along those lines, it would be useful to have a unique logo to identify TCCC. Q2: What about the confusion between Comsoc's TCCC and the Computer Society's TCCC (same name, same focus, just in a different IEEE Society)? A: Unfortunately, we have no way to enforce unique TC names across the IEEE's 28 societies. A logo would help, though (hint: if anyone wants to develop this, please do and post a nominated design to the TCCC list - see, as noted above, being a Chair is all about delegating ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
