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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dear RoboCup
2015 participants, </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Like every year, we will have
a Regional Committee Assembly this year in Hefei.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">The meeting
will be on Saturday, July 18, 2015, at 15:00. I will write again to let you
know the location once it is confirmed.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Many of you are already represented by regional committees, as indicated on
the RoboCup webpage at</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/">http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/</a>.
In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If you are from a region that is not represented, I encourage you to get
together with any other participants from your region to form a Regional
Committee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The procedure for forming Regional Committees is included at the bottom of this
message. <a name="_GoBack"></a>Please let me know if you or someone else from
your region is planning to attend this year's meeting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style></span>Levent</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">On
behalf of RoboCup</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">
Trustees</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">RoboCup Regional Committees</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">RoboCup is a non commercial, scientific
and cultural activity to promote artificial intelligence, robotics, and other
related science and technologies through robots and simulated robots
competitions.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">A sufficiently large number of teams,
researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized
region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current
RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional
Committee."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">The purposes of these committees are to</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">1. Promote RoboCup within your region.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">2. Organize local RoboCup events and
RoboCup opens.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">3. Manage qualification for RoboCup
leagues when slots are limited.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">4. Maintain RoboCup standards for
scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup
mission of sharing advances through friendly competition.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">5. Maintain an English website to be
linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your
region.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems
(names and logos) in your region.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">There are local events smaller than
regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional
committee participation, but must be approved by the board of trustees.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">The regional committee is 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.,
as well as a financial report including registration fees, regional
sponsorship, events and operational cost, etc. If there are many local events
in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Each regional committee should have a
single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of
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 regional committees to initiate formation of all
aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue,
RoboCupJunior, and RoboCup@Home.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">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 with following
information:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">1. The members and affiliations of the
committee.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">2. The names, affiliations, and email
addresses of all the Major teams represented by the committee (hopefully all
the teams from your region). In case of RoboCupJunior, include the name of the
Junior regional representative, and his/her affiliation and email address. It
is not necessary to include the list of all Junior teams from your region.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">3. The URL of your current webpage, if it
already exists (see <a href="http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/">http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/</a>
for some examples).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">The representatives of all RoboCup
Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event
to discuss with the Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions
and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees,
one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote
per regional committee).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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