Dear all,
Firstly: The minutes of meeting 2004/1 in Athens will be distributed early next week; thanks to Peter Radford who has almost finished that task.
Secondly: The TC6 budget has to be submitted until the end of June. I would like to keep it in the order of the busdet for 2004 which was as follows (please note the following excerpt of the minutes of meeting 2003/2):
---- TC6 approved a budget of 25,000 Euros for 2004.
It is split as follows in the different items: Best Paper Awards - 5,000 Euros Student Travel Grants - 11,000 Euros Grants to speakers for developing countries - 4,000 Euros Operating Expenses - 5,000 Euros.
During the meeting Best Paper Awards of 500 Euros each were approved for Testcom, Networking, Middleware, FORTE, PWC, MWCN, WWW, MMNS, DSOM and Intellcom.
During the meeting Student Travel Grants were also approved for Testcom (750 Euro), Middleware (1,500 Euro), FORTE (750 Euro), Networking (2,000 Euro), PWC (1,500 Euro), WWW (1,500 Euro) and Intellcom (1,500 Euro).
The speaker?s grants will be for ICT (1,000 Euro), SRBC (1,000 Euro), CLEI (1,000 Euro) and Intellcom (1,000 Euro). ----
**** WG 6.1 - 6.11 chairs **** 1. Please check whether these requests are valid also for 2005. 2. Please indicate new or changed requests to me until June 20 at the latest.
**** Other delegates **** Please indicate (until June 20) whether we should modify the abovementioned sums or not.
You may find the new rules in pages 16.1-16.20 of the meeting documents for the Athens meeting, in particular in pages 16.16 + 16.17.
They say: TC's with a fund balance above 15.000 EURO in year n will have to use in year n+1 at least 20 percent of the amount above 15.000 EURO for activities that serve thegoal of TC6 (not for operational expenses!) such as:
- Tutorials in developing countries - Grants for speakers at conferences in developing countries - Grants for speakers from developing countries - Student grants - Best paper awards - .....
In the case of TC6 the funds balance was (in 2003) roughly 80.000 EURO, i.e. 65.000 EURO above the 15.000 EURO threshold.
We will therefore have to use 20 percent of 65.000 EUROS, i.e. 13.000 EURO, for the beforementioned activities (otherwise the difference to 13.000 EURO will be transferred to the IFIP General fund).
Our budget for 2004 was (without operational expenses) 20.000 EURO. This is well above 13.000 EURO but we might nevertheless take this amount as an estimation for 2005.
Best regards Otto