Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB35 Vienna 2014: AGM Wed 27 Aug

Terms of Reference, Membership and ReportISCB35 Vienna 2014: AGM Wed 27 Aug

ISCB Sub-CommitteeConference Organising

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Information Terms of Reference MembersConference Organising

iscb‑conf‑org@ googlegroups.com

1. Bring together ISCB conference organisers or ISCB members who have an interest in sharing and passing on their knowledge and experience to help future ISCB conference organisers.

2. Document processes and systems for assisting ISCB conference organisers.

3. Review and update the documents whenever necessary and promote their usage for improving the procedures or meetings.

Chair:1. *David W Warne (CH)

Secretary:2. Geir Egil Eide (NO)

Members:3. Keith Abrams (UK)4. Jörg Assmus (NO)

5. Lucinda Billingham (UK)6. Tomasz Burzykowski (BE)

7. Jacobo de Una Alvarez (ES)8. Jan van de Kassteele (NL)

9. KyungMann Kim (US)10. Kate Lee (AU)

11. Ulrich Mansmann (DE)12. Tim Ramsay (CA)

13. Michael Schemper (AT)14. Maarten Schipper (NL)15. Zdenek Valenta (CZ)

16. Koos Zwinderman (NL)

Conf: Terms of Reference and

Membership

Conf: Report p.1/2

Changes to the SCJoined the SC - Tomasz Burzykowski (BE) - Jacobo de Una Alvarez (ES) - Jan van de Kassteele (NL) - Kate Lee (AU)Left the SC - Christel Castelli (FR)

Became the SC Secretary: - Geir Egil Eide (NO)

New version of the COSC Guidelines Was sent to SC in June 2013 for review – no comments received Was discussed further at ISCB34 in Munich – see update doc for

comments Has not been re-issued as some time is needed to implement the

comments, upload to website with links to all the attachments3

Conf: Report p.2/2

Future Conferences President Koos has contacted a few people concerning future conferences Officers have discussed

- detailed proposals from Kate for Melbourne (AU, 2018), - initial proposal from Jacobo for Vigo (ES, 2017), - intention from Tomasz to hold meeting in Belgium (2018+) - ???

What is the purpose of the SC - if the Officers + ExCom discuss and approve the conferences,

is the SC needed only to discuss and update the Guidelines?

- your thoughts, please?

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