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SIGCOMM 2010 Viability review. Henning Schulzrinne , SIGCOMM Vice-Chair. SIG Finances. Fund-balance $1148k vs $316k required Up from $591k in 2006 We use profits for SIG activities such as awards, geodiversity grants, travel grants, publications, etc.
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SIGCOMM2010 Viability review Henning Schulzrinne, SIGCOMM Vice-Chair
SIG Finances • Fund-balance $1148k vs $316k required • Up from $591k in 2006 • We use profits for SIG activities such as awards, geodiversity grants, travel grants, publications, etc. • We’ve actively tried to put more $$ back into the community this year (publications, travel grants) • 17 of 18 sponsored conferences profitable since Jan 2007
SIG Member Benefits • Print copy of "Computer Communication Review" (CCR), five times a year, including print proceedings of the annual SIGCOMM conference • Monthly e-mail with announcements of SIGCOMM-related conferences and other relevant announcements • Discounted subscription rate for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking • Discounted registration rate for all SIGCOMM sponsored/co-sponsored conferences • Access to all SIGCOMM sponsored/co-sponsored conference proceedings in the Digital Library
SIGCOMM Goals • Portfolio of top-notch conferences and publications for the networking community • Outreach to the global community of computer networking researchers, educators and practitioners • Increasing linkage between academic researchers and industrial practitioners in our field • Recognition of achievements in computer networking
Meeting the goals (1) • We sponsor 3 conferences (Sigcomm, CoNEXT, HotNets), co-sponsor 3 (IMC, SenSys, ANCS), in co-operation with ~8 • Sigcomm conf has very high impact rating (top 10 in CS)* • HotNets the recognized “early work” networking conference • CoNEXT growing in stature • SIG funding to increase student travel to conferences • Significant global presence: • CoNEXT, SIGCOMM outside North America 2 years in 3 • SIGCOMM 2010 in New Delhi • Financial support for Latin American Networking Conference, Asian Internet Engineering Conference • “Geodiversity” grants to fund attendance at our conferences from under-represented countries *#2 ranking on microsoft academic, #3 arnetminer, #8 citeseer
Meeting the goals (2) • CCR (Newsletter) flourishing under new editor • Increasing financial support for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking • Enthusiastic new Education Chair • http://education.sigcomm.org/ • Working to increase industrial relevance/interaction • Industry panel planned for CoNEXT 2010 • Considering similar options for SIGCOMM 2011 • Comprehensive website redesign • Role-based navigation for various communities (educators, researchers, etc.) • Expanded awards and recognition • Best paper award, Rising Star award, Student Research Competition, etc.