TCCC ExCom,
The amended minutes
from our
Minutes amended on stricken; additions are shown in red text.
Original Meeting
Date:
Monday;
Attendees:
Douglas Comer,
Sanjay Jha,
Howard Salwen, Audeon Networks (salwen@rcn.com)
Gary Kessler,
Archan Misra, IBM Research (archan@us.ibm.com)
Ellis Nolley, Strategic Growth (e.nolley@ieee.org)
Joe Bumblis, UDLP (j.bumblis@ieee.org)
Unable to attend:
Charles Perkins,
Nokia Research (charliep@iprg.nokia.com)
Sajal K. Das,
Next Conference
Call
(Action Item assigned to Joe Bumblis):
Proposed time frame
for our next teleconference is the week of
Discussion
Regarding a Face-to-Face ExCom Meeting:
Per the first
agenda item, the attendees agreed that our first Face-to-Face meeting will be
held during the LCN Conference scheduled for
1. Hold a TCCC ExCom dinner-meeting primer during early evening hours on
Thursday November 18th; then an all-day meeting on
2. Allow ExCom members to arrive anytime on Thursday without regard
to a dinner-meeting primer; hold an all-day meeting on Friday; then a recap
dinner-meeting on Friday evening. Not a
good choice if several committee members wish to return home on Friday evening.
3. Hold a single
meeting all-day on Friday; and adjourn early enough to allow members to return
home on Friday evening.
4. Other...
To allow time to
schedule hotel and restaurant reservation, we will need to choose from the
above list ASAP. Please place an
"X" by the number that fits your current thinking and reply.
If you choose "Other...", please inset some
text that describes the "Other..." choice and reply to the entire
TCCC ExCom E-mail list for all to consider. I will tally the votes and send a final
decision to the ExCom committee.
Other Discussions
and Face-to-Face Meeting Agenda Items:
1. Online publishing. This will require a Program Committee for
paper review, a Call for Papers initially distributed to the TCCC membership, a
pre-defined theme, perhaps a paper quota, and an acceptance target (I think
'rejection rate' is such a harsh term
:-) ). Our discussion then turned to the focus of
the paper sources. Should the initial
focus on paper sources come from Academia or Industry? If both, it should be
perceived as a 'plus' to the user community, TCCC membership, and
Academia. Care must be taken at the
extremes; academic papers must not be so abstract as to limit interest to a
narrow group, and industry papers must not explicitly discuss products or
competitive advantage themes. (Action Item assigned to TCCC ExCom for E-mail discussions and/or an agenda item for
November)
2. Need to identify who are our TCCC members. Ellis Nolley has
volunteered to create a 'websurvey' to identify our
members and tabulate their responses.
Ellis also proposed expanding the 'websurvey'
scope to include the entire IEEE Computer Society membership to determine
technical interest profile items to aid in TCCC recruitment. Additional goals include identifying
membership background, current positions, and interests proposes that we survey the existing TCCC members to
determine their background, position and interests, and use the IEEE Technical
Interest Profile (TIP) items under the
Computer Society to gather their interests. We
should also have access to this information directly from the IEEE's membership database,
so we can compare any changes. Thus, only
survey the TCCC members
who are also still IEEE members. The
database idea is to capture this information online and automatically tabulate
it. Ellis has requested help from Gary Kessler to investigate 'websurvey' posting and delivery options. Joe Bumblis will contact John Daniel for the
latest TCCC membership database. Ellis
will work together with
3. We discussed performing a search of existing
online conferences, Webcasting and chat/whiteboards
to identify how others have successfully established these collaborative
mediums. Ellis suggested investigating
career-useful outcomes for participation with these mediums to allow people to
justify their effort. For example,
publications that satisfy tenure requirements, discussions useful to
research/new product development and services, industry and academic
collaboration, and new/revised specifications/standards. (Action Item assigned
to TCCC ExCom for E-mail discussions and/or an agenda
item for November)
4. Create a draft charter for TCCC ExCom review, comment, and modify/enhancements. I believe I could supply a draft version for
review prior to the next ExCom conference call. (Action
Item assigned to: Joe Bumblis)
5. Establish a majordomo list for the TCCC
Executive Committee. We need an
administrator to accomplish this...volunteers??? Any IEEE organization can get Majordomo lists
through the IEEE; see: http://eleccomm.ieee.org/maillist.shtml for
details. Also see the IEEE E-Mail Policy at: http://eleccomm.ieee.org/email-policy.shtml
6. Investigate the possibility of establishing a
Website for posting material, links and collaboration among the ExCom membership - perhaps each ExCom
committee member can add to the main-page (treating it as a pseudo-whiteboard)
or create their own HTML and link it to the main page. We may also want to consider getting a
website from the IEEE/Computer Society and sharing the password to permit ALL
IEEE members access. This could become a
monumental task if it becomes a popular "portal'. If we experience strong
growth, we could ask the
IEEE/Computer Society to reset the password to some default
password known only by the TCCC ExCom until a
discussion can be held regarding administrative assistance. This "issue" also applies to a
Majordomo list. (Action Item assigned to TCCC ExCom
for E-mail discussions and/or an agenda item for November)
IEEE
organization can obtain and run a website now as long as they adhere to the
“Terms & Conditions for Use of the IEEE Web Site” viewable at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=about/documentation/copyright&file=legal.xml&xsl=generic.xsl . See http://ewh.ieee.org
for further
details. IEEE privacy policy located at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp?pageID=corp_level1&path=about/documentation/copyright&file=privacy.xml&xsl=generic.xsl
7. Recruiting - grow the TCCC. Archan felt that
we need to identify and quantify what is meant by "recruiting". As
Chair of the Wireless Technology area of the TCCC, Archan
should have quite a bit of interest from both industry and academia. In the
interim, I will contact Archan and have a preliminary
discussing regarding recruitment. (Action Item assigned to Joe Bumblis to
contact Archan)
8. Conduct 2-3 conference calls before the
general TCCC ExCom meeting in November, with E-mail
discussions between teleconferences. Try
to accomplish as much of the agenda as possible before the Face-to-Face meeting
so that we can focus on execution details at the meeting. (Action Item
assigned to TCCC ExCom for E-mail discussions. Joe
Bumblis will coordinate the conference calls)
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Thank you,
Joe Bumblis
Chair, TCCC