[robocup-worldwide] National Committee Assembly - Thursday, July 7th @ 3pm, Pamukkale room

[Peter Stone]

The NC assembly will be on Thursday, July 7th at 3pm in the Pamukkale
room on the 1st floor of the venue.

     Peter

> 
> Dear RoboCup 2011 participants,
> 
> I'm writing to let you know that, like every year, we will have a
> National Committee Assembly this year in Istanbul.
> 
> The meeting will be on Thursday, July 7th, probably at 3pm.  I will
> write again to let you know once the details, including location, are
> confirmed.
> 
> Many of you are already represented by national committees, as
> indicated on the RoboCup webpage at
> http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/
> 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.  
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> =========================================================================
> 
> 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 may at some time
> in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation
> registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the
> federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into
> effect).
> 
> 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/organization-of-robocup/national-committees/ 
>      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.