Dear all,
please find the new TC6 calendar as attachment. It would be good if you check the entries (in particular if you are a WG chairperson) and if you would communicate missing entries and modifications to me. This is probably necessary since in the hectics of the Toronto meeting not everything was perfectly remembered by me.
Some other things (which are relatively serious):
1. In some cases our preplanning is far from being perfect. We don't know too much even about 2006. For example: Even the location of FORTE 2006 has not been decided! Some years ago we have had a six-year plan which now becomes more and more a 6-month plan.
2. Many organisors behave really crazy: - they change the publisher with respect to the announcement in the call for papers without notifying the authors about that, i.e. they don't karmouch (= care much) about the event - others sign an event request form where Kluwer is mentioned as publisher, but thereafter they "decide" to make a printing somewhere in Singapore (even if the conference is in Colmar, France) just for so-called cost reasons even if they ask 350 EURO as registration fee - much of which is for gala dinners; they don't contact PC members for reviewing, they don't inform them about the outcome; they do not invite for a PC meeting; they accept many dozens of papers (with probably questionable overall quality); they ask for best paper awards without any justification; .......
Thus I really urge our WG chairpersons (predominantly) but also all other delegates to take somewhat better care of our events. We risk to get a very negative reputation!
The overall strategy of TC6 must be discussed in Wroclaw (at Meeting 2005/2) at the very latest. Some changes are really unavoidable.
Best regards Otto