Minutes

2016 Steering Committee Meeting

Report on HotMobile 2016

(David and Prabal)

• Generally everything was very positive with the event and SC thanked David and Prabal for their efforts. Finances were ok though it seems that the food was expensive at the hotel - thanks go to David for driving the cost down. The location was really excellent though a couple of folks mentioned to me (as SC chair) that they felt it was a little tricky to get to for MobiSys PC members. Issues with the MobiSys PC meeting also surfaced - they had a lot of cancellations so they relied on the hotel network and audio which wasn’t great - needed to work on this to make sure that we can continue the strategy of co-location.

  There was a suggestion that SIGMOBILE should maintain a blacklist of hotels with poor network connectivity. Roy agreed to look into this and David was to ensure that the wifi issues were shared with the hotel.

PC, GC and location for next year

• We discussed a number of location options on (or near) the West Coast. These were all agreed as potentially interesting and would be passed onto next year's GC and PC.

  • palm springs
  • monterey
  • napa/sonoma
  • santa monica

  For PC Chair we selected Nic Lane and for GC Chair Elizabeth Belding. Both accepted our invitation and the SC believe that we have an outstanding team for next year.

SC Changes

• Nigel took an action to refresh the SC email list which seemed to have got out of date.

  The SC unanimously agreed to add Parabal and David to the SC for a period of two years.

  In keeping with our policy we will retire Matt and Stefan after two years of service.

WMCSA/Hotmobile Web

• It was agreed that the SC should take the HotMobile website back "in house" to ensure that parts of the site that are independent of a specific workshop are maintained and to ease the job for the SC of tracking progress. Nigel reported that he has a student (Mateusz Mikusz) who could take this on and Nigel was tasked with inviting Mateusz to the role of web chair.

AOB

• None.