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Dear all,<br>
please notice the correct URL for the RoboCup Regional Committees is
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees/">http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees/</a><br>
<br>
Any Regional Committee willing to update/add info here, please let
us know.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Luca.<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 16/07/2017 11:18, Xiao-Ping Chen ha
scritto:<br>
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cite="mid:218f7881.7f271.15d49307384.Coremail.xpchen@ustc.edu.cn"
type="cite">
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span
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" lang="EN-US">Dear RoboCup 2017 participants, </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span
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" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height:
normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><span
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" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US">Many
of you are already
represented by regional committees, as indicated on the
RoboCup webpage at</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times
New Roman","serif";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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"
lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US">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
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" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US">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
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" lang="EN-US">Best
Regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Xiaoping</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US"></span><span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">On
behalf of RoboCup</span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">
Trustees</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span
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" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height:
normal; -ms-text-autospace:;"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">3. The URL of your
current webpage, if it already
exists (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/">http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/</a>
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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="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
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" 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></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align:
justify; line-height: normal; -ms-text-autospace:;
-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height:
normal; -ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New
Roman","serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
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></p>
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