<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
TR">Dear RoboCup 2017 participants, </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
TR"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Like every
year, we will have a Regional Committee Assembly this year in Nagoya.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The meeting
will be on Thursday, July 27, 2017, at 17:00 at the Trustee Meeting Room.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR">Many of you are already
represented by regional committees, as indicated on the RoboCup webpage at</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR">http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/.
In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR">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><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR">The procedure for forming Regional
Committees is included at the bottom of this message. Please let me know if you
or someone else from your region is planning to attend this year's meeting.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR">Best Regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Xiaoping</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR"></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">On
behalf of RoboCup</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">
Trustees</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:TR"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">RoboCup Regional Committees</span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The purposes of these committees are to</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1. Promote RoboCup within your region.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots
are limited.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the
main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems (names and
logos) in your region.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1. The members and affiliations of the committee.</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">3. The URL of your current webpage, if it already
exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/
for some examples).</span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language: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></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: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></p>