[robocup-updates] RoboCup National Assembly

Tucker Balch tucker.balch at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jun 26 13:13:56 EDT 2007


(From Peter Stone, forwarded by Tucker)


Dear RoboCup 2007 participants,

I am writing to inform you about the first RoboCup National Committee
Assembly that will be held this year on
	
	 July 3rd at 15:00 - 16:30
	 in the Student Center Auditorium (RoboCupJunior venue)

Many of you are already represented by national committees, as
indicated on the RoboCup webpage at
http://www.robocup.org/overview/24.html.  In that case, your
representative has already been invited to the meeting.

If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to
get together with any other participants from your country to form a
National Committee.  Please see http://www.robocup-us.org/teams.html
for the list of registered teams.

This year, the meeting will be mostly informational, but starting next
year, the national committees will be able to vote for RoboCup
organizational positions.

The procedure for forming National Committees is included at the
bottom of this message.  Please let me know if you or someone else
from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting.

Best Regards,

      Peter
      RoboCup Trustee



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RoboCup National Committees
===========================

Any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth
"region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is
invited to form a "RoboCup National Committee."

The purposes of these committees are to

1) Promote RoboCup within your region
2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens
3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited
4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within
your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through
friendly competition
5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup
website describing the RoboCup activities in your region


These are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which
should also be run with national committee participation, but must be
approved by the trustees.

For each such local event and open, national committees are
responsible for collecting the standard RoboCup Federation
registration fee from participants and sending the resulting funds to
the federation (details to be announced).

The national committee is also expected to send a report following
each event summarizing the participation and organization of the
event, including how many people and teams participated, from where,
etc.  If there are many local events in a given year, they can be
grouped together into a single annual report.


Each national committee should have a single chair who serves as the
main point of contact with the RoboCup trustees for questions that are
relevant to the region.  There should be representation on the
committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your
region is active (including RoboCupJunior).  If not already
established, we encourage the national committees to initiate
formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including
RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome.


To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants
from your region.  Once the list of committee members is prepared,
please contact the RoboCup trustees to let us know:

1) The members and affiliations of the committee.
2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams
      represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your
      region).
3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see
      http://www.robocup.org/overview/24.html for some examples)

The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be
represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup
website.


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