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Membership and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB)

Liaison Report

to Standards Activities Board (SAB) MGAB LiaisonDavid Schultz

March 26, 2010

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MGAB formed this year

• The IEEE-CS Chapter Activities Board has merged with the Membership Committee to form the new Membership and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB)

• Prof. Sankaran chairs the MGAB

• My specific function this year is to chair the Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP)

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MGAB Organization

• Sankaran has organized the MGAB into three committees– Membership Development Committee

(membership functions from old Membership Committee)

– Geographic Unit Operations Committee (Regional Representatives from old CAB)

– Awards and Recognition Committee (including DVP and Member Visitor Programs)

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Summary of Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP)

• Speakers are nominated and approved for inclusion in the DVP

• Chapters invite DVP speakers to address an upcoming chapter meeting

• The program has a budget to include travel reimbursements for DVP speakers

• We have speakers from all fields of computer science and engineering

• We would welcome additional speakers from the Standards arena

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Status Report for DVP (as of December 2009)

• Last fall, we received 12 strong nominations for new DVP Speakers

• We anticipate 25 or 30 DVP visits this year

• DVP budget was cut last year, and will probably be cut further in 2010

• Money lasts longer when speakers combine several chapter visits into a tour

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Geographical Distribution of DVP Speaker Requests (for 2009)

• Last year, the DVP speaker requests were distributed as follows– 23 in North America– 5 in Latin America– 1 in Asia– 0 in Europe– 29 speakers total for 2009

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Geographical Distribution of DVP Speaker Requests (for 2008)

• In 2008, for comparison, the DVP speaker requests were distributed as follows– 14 in North America– 8 in Latin America– 2 in Asia– 3 in Europe– 27 speakers total for 2008

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Geographic Distribution of DVP Speakers (for 2010)

• As of January 2010, here is the geographic distribution of speakers, by continent– North America – 20 – Latin America – 10 – Asia – 14 – Europe – 3

• We’re trying to recruit additional speakers from Europe – let me know if you can think of any potential candidates