Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:31:27 +0100 To: basie@rkw.rau.ac.za From: Plamen Nedkov <nedkov@ifip.or.at> Subject: Fwd: Re: [IFIP] Task Force on IT & Sports

Basie,

FYI. See you soon, Plamen

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X-Sender: nedkov#secr.ifip.or.at@192.168.0.10 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:14:54 +0100 To: Kemal Ebcioglu <kemal@us.ibm.com> From: Plamen Nedkov <nedkov@ifip.or.at> Subject: Re: [IFIP] Task Force on IT & Sports Cc: Dan <DOLeary@marshall.usc.edu>, Erol Gelenbe <erol@cs.ucf.edu>, Jan Roukens <jroukens@hotmail.com>, Mikko Ruohonen <mr@cs.uta.fi>, Rita DE CALUWE <rdc@telin.rug.ac.be>, Otto Spaniol <spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, nedkov@ifip.or.at

Thanks, Kemal. The idea of a vision statement is excellent and I hope Otto and Erol could take the lead. Also, I take it that Otto will be our key person (in terms of program and organization) with regard to the conference in September 2004.

I leave on Friday for Bilbao for the IFIP Council. There, I will present a progress report on the TF during the Technical Assembly

Regards, Plamen

At 07:18 PM 2/19/03 -0500, Kemal Ebcioglu wrote:

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This looks like good progress. I think organizing a conference on this topic provides a good opportunity for allowing technical ideas to emerge and for recruiting interested people to the effort. We can also meet more regularly through teleconferences and attempt to write a white

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statement, if there is sufficient interest from the team. Let us know how we can help.

Kemal

Plamen Nedkov <nedkov@ifip.or.a To: Otto Spaniol <spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, t> Rita DE CALUWE <rdc@telin.rug.ac.be>, Mikko Ruohonen <mr@cs.uta.fi>, Erol Gelenbe <erol@cs.ucf.edu>, Kemal 02/05/2003 04:48 Ebcioglu/Watson/IBM@IBMUS AM cc: Jan Roukens <jroukens@hotmail.com>, O'Leary@ifip.or.at, Dan <DOLeary@marshall.usc.edu>, nedkov@ifip.or.at Subject: [IFIP] Task Force on IT & Sports

Dear TF members,

In response to my mail of 30 Oct. [see note below] I received confirmations from Otto, Rita, Erol and Kemal. I have not heard from the others but I assume Mikko is also on board. Otto has accepted to serve as the co-chair for Europe and Erol, with the help of Kemal, will be the second co-chair for North America.

I have asked the IT-STAR representatives ( http://www.ifip.or.at/it-star ) during a meeting in Nov. about their interest in joining this initiative and their attitude is quite positive.

Otto has also progressed our contacts with

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochen Mester Digital Media Center, German Sports College (University), Cologne email: mester@dshs-koeln.de http://www.dshs-koeln.de/train

A national [DE] activity in this are is organized by the German Academy for Sports Science. Prof. Mester is a Council member. Every second year they hold a national event and every 4th year an international symposium. The next national event is scheduled for 2004 in Cologne and he would be happy to cooperate with our initiative. There is an existing partnership with IBM

supported by the German Ministry (for Education?). Otto and I have tentatively agreed to explore the second half of September 2004 for an international IFIP [TF on "IT & Sports"] event within the format of the National symposium in Cologne. Otto will get back to us on this matter. If we agree to go along with this we need to set up a program committee. [I suggest Otto and Erol consider consider the issue of the PC chair.] In addition to the members of the TF I think we could rely on TC 6, GI - IFIP's German member society probably one or 2 representatives from IT-STAR and any other interested individuals.

If we go for this, we would handle the conference as a regular IFIP event. The process and the conference would help us recruit membership, hold a TF business meeting during that event and establish the "IT & sports" agenda and organizational unit as a specialized area within IFIP.

There is an IFIP Council meeting in early March 2003 in Spain and I would report during the Technical Assembly on the status.

Please let me have your comments and recommendations.

Best, Plamen

P.S. While not urgent, we need to have a more structures draft of the Aims and Scope of the TF based on the original paper http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/corner/it_sports.pdf so if anyone wishes to take a shot at this she/he are most welcome.

Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:11:04 +0100 To: Otto Spaniol <spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, Rita DE CALUWE <rdc@telin.rug.ac.be>, Mikko Ruohonen <mr@cs.uta.fi>, Erol Gelenbe <erol@cs.ucf.edu>, Kemal Ebcioglu <kemal@us.ibm.com>, O'Leary@ifip.or.at, Dan <DOLeary@marshall.usc.edu> From: Plamen Nedkov <nedkov@ifip.or.at> Subject: [IFIP] Task Force on IT & Sports Cc: Jan Roukens <jroukens@hotmail.com>, nedkov@ifip.or.at

Hello Everyone,

I am getting back to you about the IT&Sports initiative - http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00143.html

On the base of all the positive responses I prepared a paper - http://www.ifip.or.at/secretariat/corner/it_sports.pdf which was considered during the Technical Assembly (TA) in Montreal, Sep. 2002. TA supported this initiative and decided to establish a Task Force on IT & Sports. The General Assembly endorsed the initiative. The Task Force on "IT

& Sports" is mandated to further investigate the subject and to prepare a draft proposal for aims, scope and activities for TA 2003. I offered to assist in starting the project.

In early October I participated in the TC 6 annual meeting and 30th Anniversary in Lisbon. The IT & Sports initiative was on the TC 6 meeting Agenda and many TC 6 members thought it was very timely to step into a field. TC 6 decided to appoint Otto Spaniol, their Past Chair, as the TC 6 Liaison and contact on matters related to IT & Sports. Otto and I are in contact on this for a while. We think that we should start in Europe and in

North America and then try to further expand. We would need two regional leaders - one for Europe and another for North America. Otto agreed to take responsibility for Europe.

From previous contact I know Erol would be available to help and Kemal is also willing to provide his connections to industry. This said, I would like to ask whether Erol, with Kemal's help, would be willing to take responsibility for the leadership in North America. If Erol agrees, as I hope he would we, would have the regional leaders (co-chairs of the TF).

The following persons have initially said they would be willing to contribute -

Europe: *Otto Spaniol <spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> - past TC 6 Chair [DE] *Rita DE CALUWE <rdc@telin.rug.ac.be> - past TC 3 Vice-Chair and past GA representative of BE *Mikko Ruohonen <mr@cs.uta.fi> WG 3.4 Chair [FI]

North America: *Erol Gelenbe <erol@cs.ucf.edu> Past WG 7.3, University Chair Professor & Director School of EECS, Associate Dean of Eng'g & CS, University of Central Florida *Kemal Ebcioglu <kemal@us.ibm.com> WG 10.3 Chair, T. J. Watson Reseach Center, IBM *Dan O'Leary <DOLeary@marshall.usc.edu> TC 12 Secretary and WG 12.6 Chair,

Univ. of South California

They are all copied to this mail. This would be the core group with natural

links to TC3, TC6, TC7, TC10 and TC12. As we progress, I am confident

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each of us could recruit further members.

There is also Jan Roukens <jroukens@hotmail.com> , former IFIP TC 4 Chair on Medical Informatics, who responded with the idea related to the drug monitoring system which I though is very interesting. Jan originally said he would not be available but I copy him just in case he may wish to reconsider or recommend another expert in the Field (IMIA rep?).

Otto and I have taken one step further - Otto was in contact with the German sports academy (this perhaps in not the correct name but my understanding is that the institution is very solid) in order to investigate the possibility for organizing in Germany an international IFIP

conference in the field in 2004. The first contacts are encouraging.

We need to reconfirm that all of you are available and willing to take

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: sexta-feira, 21 de Marco de 2003 10:15 To: ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at Subject: [IFIP] Task Force on IT & Sports Dear TC Chairs, During the TA in Bilbao I reported on the progress re. the TF on IT & Sports. Jacques requested that I circulate to all the TC Chairs the material to which I referred when reporting. Here it is. Best, Plamen paper/vision that part

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in this. Then, under Otto's and Erol's (?) guidance, we would need to

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working on a draft proposal for aims, scope and activities for TA 2003.

So, ARE YOU READY?

Best,

Plamen

-------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/