PODC 2004 Business Meeting

Mark Tuttle, HP LabsSteering Committee

Thanks: Sponsors

Microsoft $5,000

Sun Labs $5,000

HP Labs $3,000

Thanks: Steering committee

Marcos Aguilera

Soma Chaudhuri

Idit Keidar

Shay Kutten

Keith Marzullo

Sergio Rajsbaum

Mark Tuttle

(Gil Neiger)

Thanks: Program committee

James Aspnes

Gregory Chockler

Edith Cohen

Panagiota Fatourou

Joan Feigenbaum

Christof Fetzer

Jaap-Henk Hoepman

David Karger

Idit Keidar

Victor Luchangco

Keith Marzullo

Toshimitsu Masuzawa

Rafail Ostrovsky

Boaz Patt-Shamir

Michel Raynal

Alex Shvartsman

Gadi Taubenfeld

Mark Tuttle

Roger Wattenhofer

Shay Kutten, Chair Michael Mitzenmacher, Special Track Chair

Thanks: Organizing committee

Soma Chaudhuri, General Chair Shay Kutten, Program Chair

Michael Mitzenmacher, Special Track Chair Marcos Aguilera, Treasurer

Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Local ArrangementsPanagiota Fatourou, PublicityVictor Luchangco, Publicity

Rida Bazzi, PostersJaap-Henk Hoepman, Technical Services Gil Neiger, Webmaster and Registration

Agenda

• 2003 treasurer’s report: Soma Chaudhuri• 2004 treasurer’s report: Marcos Aguilera• 2004 program chair’s report: Shay Kutten• Dijkstra Prize proposals• Registration fee proposals• PODC future locations

Soma Chaudhuri

2003 Treasurer

2004 General chair

2003 Treasurer’s Report• Revenue $48, 850

Registration $ 32, 350 Sponsorship $ 16, 500

• Expenses $ 48, 740

• Surplus $1,110!Reimbursed travel for $1000 leaving a surplus of $110.

Some Explanations

Last year I said I had a $4500 deficit. Why?

We saved an extra $1100 on the banquet. Got a few more full-fare non-ACM registrations! ACM is tax-exempt in Massachusetts!

It was close!

Main Pitfalls• 132 registrations

51 students 69 full-fare

42 % at student rate! This percentage has been growing in the last

couple years. This is good for PODC but hard for the budget!

More of this in 2004.

Marcos Aguilera

2004 Treasurer

2005 General chair

Revenue

$33,705$330

$250

$13,000

Registration

On-Site Sales

Tutorials

Donations

$27,000.00

$28,000.00

$29,000.00

$30,000.00

$31,000.00

$32,000.00

$33,000.00

$34,000.00

FY2002 FY2003 FY2004

Registration Revenue

Series1

Expenses

$1,142

$25,849

$7,145

$1,168

$6,616

$1,200

Publicity

Committee

Registration

On-Site Logistics

Food & Beverage

Program/Publications

Financial Activities

Administrative Fees

Shay Kutten

2004 Program chair

Dijkstra Prize proposals

• ACM PODC and EATCS DISC as joint sponsors– DISC will match PODC’s contribution to endowment

– Cash value of prize will double to $2,000

– Advantages:

• Increase visibility in Europe via EATCS

• Increase interest by doubling the cash value

• Dijkstra Prize Lecture– A ceremony awarding the prize followed by…

– A lecture by the recipient(s) on the work and the future of the field (an invited lecture, not required)

Registration fee proposals

• Deep student discounts are no longer practical– Students ratio grown from 1:3 in 2000 to 1:1 in 2004

– 1:3: to discount students $100, charge nonstudents $33

– 1:1: to discount students $100, charge nonstudents $100

• Student ratio uncertainty hamstrings organizers• Proposal: Fix some surcharge like 20%

– Nonstudents pay 120% of actual costs

– Students pay 40% (1:3) to 80% (1:1) depending on ratio

– 2004 fees would have been $291/183 vs $335/130

• Proposal: banquet optional? travel grants?

PODC/SPAA 2005July 17-20

• Main event is collocation with SPAA– Several joint sessions, probably no festival etc…

• Was to be in Santa Fe – Hotel rates turned out to be $150+ not $99

– Available dates were badly restricted by tourism season

• But we’re going to Vegas!

Alexis Park Resort

Alexis Park Resort

• One mile off the strip!

• No casino in hotel!

• Near the university

• Near the airport

• Many restaurants within a short walk

• But it will be hot!

Alexis Park Resort• “… the only reasonable choice in Las Vegas”

- Guy Blelloch, PLDI’97• “I used pretty much all the venues available … the

most satisfactory … arrangement I had was with the Alexis Park. It's a mile off the strip, … and within an easy walk of a half dozen great restaurants.”

-Hal Berghel, UNLV• “…the conference rooms were fine …the best option

…the location could not be better.”-Wolf Bein, UNLV

Alexis Park Resort

• Some easily found airline fares for July 2004– Boston $221

– New York $221

– Pittsburgh $198

– Seattle $192

– Atlanta $222

– Toronto $350

– London $1159

– Paris $1116

– Tel Aviv $1107

Alexis Park Resort

• Cheap rooms, expensive food (ACM says “normal”)– Hotel: $79/night

– Registration: perhaps $475 full, $325 student

• From Boston: registration + five nights + airfare:– Saint John: $335 + 5*125 + 404 = $1364

– Las Vegas: $475 + 5*79 + 221 = $1091

• How important is it to keep registration <$400?– Cut food? Cut reception? Cut banquet? Cut proceedings?

2005 organizing committees

• PODC– General chair: Marcos Aguilera

– Program chair:

– Treasurer: Eric Ruppert

– Local chair:

• SPAA– General chair: Phil Gibbons

– Program chair: Paul Spirakis

– Treasurer: Raj Rajmohan

– Local chair: Cindy Phillips

Potential coming PODCs

• 2006: New Haven, CT (Jim Aspnes)– See Tuttle land: Yale divinity school, dirty parking lot

• 2007: Portland, OR (Gil Neiger)– See Gil Neiger

• 2008: Toronto, Ontario (Eric Ruppert)– See Henry Moore plaster casts for sculptures

• Also Flagstaff/Phoenix, AZ (Rida Bazzi), SPAA

• Maybe Philadelphia, ACM FCRC…

Questions?

(Yes, HP Labs is hiring!)