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Financial Assessment

SIGIR Viability Review Chair: Jamie Callan (US) Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani (EU) Secretary: David Lewis (US) Treasurer: Justin Zobel (AU) Regional Rep: Noriko Kando (AS). Financial Assessment. Target fund balance: $430-440K Significantly above ACM required balance

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Financial Assessment

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  1. SIGIR Viability ReviewChair: Jamie Callan (US)Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani (EU)Secretary: David Lewis (US)Treasurer: Justin Zobel (AU)Regional Rep: Noriko Kando (AS)

  2. Financial Assessment • Target fund balance: $430-440K • Significantly above ACM required balance • We generally run a break-even budget • We’re not afraid to lose money occasionally ($38K last year) • We should have a nice surplus this year • Conferences vary in profitability, but none lose money • Budgeted to break-even at 75% of normal attendance • Membership costs being reduced significantly this year • Switching “Special Issue” of SIGIR Forum from paper to DVD

  3. Membership 61% NA 23% EU 13% AS 2% ANZ 1% SA (FY 2004) * * Admin error 2007 is a partial year

  4. Volunteer Development:A Culture of Service • SIGIR EC • Early mid-career members recruited to run for some positions • International members aggressively recruited to run • SIGIR conference • Junior members recruited for Posters Program Committee, occasionally Papers Program committee, Information Director, Forum editorships, SIGIR-List • Many opportunities for senior members to serve • 33-50% annual turnover encouraged at Senior level of SIGIR Program Committee • Regional Program Chairs to SIGIR conference • Americas, Europe, Asia/Australia/New Zealand

  5. Conferences

  6. Member Service Summary • SIGIR Forum newsletter (paper, online) • Optional JCDL+CIKM Proceedings Package • Optional DiSC Package • SIG-IRList electronic newsletter • Access to SIGIR material in the Digital Library • A Digital Preservation effort for early IR material • At SIGIR conference • Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and triennial Salton awards • Student travel awards • Doctoral consortium • Optional mentoring for new authors • Automatic 1-year ACM SIGIR registration of non-members • At JCDL conference • Co-sponsorship of Vannevar Bush best paper award

  7. What We’re Working On • We’re in the middle of revising the bylaws • To match how we actually operate • To increase EC terms from 2 years to 3 years • The SIGIR conference rotation is transitioning from two-region (NA, EU) to three-region (+AS) • Singapore in 2008 • This EC retires on June 30 • We have 3 good candidates for each elected position • The slate has international and gender diversity

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