[Compgeom-announce] reminder: election of CG Steering Committee -- Call for Nominations

This is a reminder that the deadline for nominations for the Computational Geometry Steering Committee is this week: Thursday, July 6. (In my previous call, I accidentally wrote Thursday, July 3 – my apologies for the inconvenience. Below is the Call For Nominations with corrected deadline.)

Note that you may nominate more than one person.

-- Mark de Berg

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR CG STEERING COMMITTEE

Dear CG Community,

You may recall that the current Computational Geometry Steering Committee was elected in August 2003 for a term of three years. The committee coordinates the annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), e.g. by appointing its PC and Video chairs, it conducts the business meeting at SoCG, it serves as liaisons to other organizations and conferences such as FCRC, and so on.

It is now time to elect a new committee. As the secretary of the Steering Committee I write you to call for nominations. The election will be conducted in roughly the same manner as before, according to the following procedure:

(1) Any member of the community may nominate any other member by sending email directly to me by the deadline--see below. Nominations of past and current committee members are allowed, with one exception: since I am

conducting the election, I cannot be nominated. It is not necessary to

check with those whom you nominate; after nominations have been received, I will contact those nominated and ask them if they are willing to serve.

(2) I will then prepare the list of candidates whom the community can vote for. This list will consist of the 15 most nominated persons; in case of ties the number of candidates on the list may deviate slightly.

The list will be circulated via compgeom-announce, and the community will be asked to vote for five candidates from the list. The five with the most votes will then become the new Steering Committee. It will be up to them to select a Chair and otherwise organize themselves.

The new Steering Committee will again serve for three years.

To nominate someone, send email to

mdberg@win.tue.nl

with Subject: "CG Nomination" before Thursday July 6, 2006. We look forward to hearing from you!

Mark de Berg, on behalf of the current Steering Committee:

Pankaj Agarwal (chair)

Mark de Berg (secretary)

Ferran Hurtado

Joe Mitchell

Jack Snoeyink