Minutes

2008 Steering Committee Meeting

Attendees:	Nina Bhatti, Ramon Caceres, Nigel Davies, Maria Ebling, Eyal de Lara, Satya
Phone in:	Armando Fox, Robin Kravets
Apologies:	Adrian Friday
Guests:	Mark Corner, April Mitchell

Report on HotMobile 2008

April Mitchell (standing in for Mirjana) and Mark Corner provided the report. This year's workshop was a huge success with 77 attendees (attendance was originally capped at 70 but a few stragglers meant the numbers went slightly over). Paper submissions were also up significantly from last year. Full credit to all involved. It looks as though we will be in profit by roughly 7K USD thanks to over 20K of sponsorship. The room and venue were excellent. Co location with the Mobisys PC meeting appeared to help attendance.

Report on move to ACM

April and Mark confirmed that this move had gone smoothly and it was agreed to stay with the ACM for the foreseeable future.

Changes in SC membership

After many years of active participation Armando Fox and Robin Kravets offered to step down from the SC. The committe agreed to take them up on these offers. The committee unanimously agreed to ask Mark Corner and Mirjana Spasojevic to join as replacements - continuing our tradition of appointing chairs of previous years workshops to the SC. Nigel was actioned with contacting Armando, Robin, Mark and Mirjana as a result of these decisions.

Hotmobile 2009

It was agreed to ask April Mitchell to be General Chair for HotMobile 2009. A short list of possible PC chairs was drawn up and it was agreed to ask Doug Terry and should he decline Anthony LaMarca to be PC chair. The location was set as Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay/similar.

Post proceedings

Following a request from Nina we discussed the issue of post proceedings. Nina highlighted that these are a big pain to produce and cause difficulty in closing out the finances of the workshop until long after the event. It was agreed to change to a model of producing proceedings prior to the conference and then producing a digest/summary of the workshop for publication in IEEE Pervasive with a pointer to this digest in the proceedings. It was agreed to continue to produce paper proceedings.

Face-to-face PC meeting

We discussed the possibility of not having a face to face pc meeting for Hot Mobile 2009. It was agreed that the value of a face to face meeting exceeded the costs in terms of PC members time and hence the SC will recommend to the incoming PC chair that a face to face meeting is held.

Web master

The SC expressed a desire to have a permanent on-line home for WMCSA/HotMobile and to create a web master post to create and maintain this home. The SC agreed to invite Christos Efstratiou to this post and Nigel was actioned with issuing the invite.