EC Conference Call Oct 21, 2009

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 1. Approval of minutes From the meeting on September 9-11, 2009
    (Loren, September 25)

    Approved. Loren will post as soon as possible.

 2. Urgent discussion of potential starter grant for CHI 2013

    Goal: have CHI 2013 in Europe.
    Fact: convention costs are very high in Europe.
    A starter grant would be a help in evaluating bids, may be
      necessary to have a conference in Europe.
    VP Conferences will now continue the process, with the knowledge
      that the EC will consider making a starter grant available to
      make a CHI 2013 in Europe financially viable.  

 3. Status report on Metadata Management project

    Still in progress

 4. Status report on HCI Education worldwide

    Goal: to develop HCI educational materials and curricula suitable
      for conditions around the world

    Still in progress, still looking for someone to lead the effort

 5. Status report on awards and nominations

    Elizabeth: Athena award process: underway

    Loren: All ACM award nominations are well under way and moving
    forward nicely

    Loren's job -- keep records of nominations: specifically, who was
    nominated for what award, and who led the process

    Several new awards have been suggested. They will be discussed in
    the future, beginning at the January EC meeting.

    Loren: will collect award issues to discuss at January meeting.

 6. Status report on adjunct chair for publicity

    Still in progress, looking for an adjunct chair

 7. Status report on Mailing lists and Website

    Fred: has created role-based logins for the SIGCHI site
          is working with ACM on various mailing list issues

    Issue: migrating content from old private EC area

 8. Public policy and Lobbying -- proposal to move to January meeting

    Agreed, and will invite the Chair of the SIGCHI Public Policy
    Committee to participate

 9. Dan�s proposal on Communities -- proposal to move to January meeting

    Agreed

 10. January meeting: Austin, TX, January 27 (evening) - January 30 (lunch)

    Nick, Scooter: will identify local (Austin) HCI people to meet with
   
 11. Report on discussions with other professional societies /
     communities
    
     Elizabeth reported briefly on this