<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Regional Committee
Representatives,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">It is great to have this annual chance of
sharing information from all regional committees at the 1st RCA meeting at RoboCup 2017! Every Regional
Committee is expected to present a <font color="#ff0000">max.</font> <font color="#ff0000">3 min </font>oral presentation. We would like
to suggest a list of key issues to be addressed in your presentations. The
issues include but not limited to:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">1) Status of regional competitions:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- How about RoboCup competitions in your
region within the past year?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Number of leagues, teams and participants
in your competitions, and a comparison with the previous 2 years;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Overseas teams participating in your
competitions;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Number of new teams. Are your
competitions still attractive in your region? </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Scientific visibility of your
competitions and other efforts: Workshops, special sessions, etc. at recognized
conferences in your region;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- How about the impact of your competitions
(as well as your other efforts) on your region? Are they most important among
all robotic competitions in your region?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">2) Scientific and technological
accomplishments in your region:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- In your competitions, are the robots
performing better subject to more challenging conditions based on measurable
performance criteria? </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Recent scientific results, scientific
publications, including open source software and other merits besides papers,
made by RoboCuppers in your region; </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- How does RoboCup
stimulate Robotics and AI research and education in your region?</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">3) Resource developments in your region:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Sponsorships you raised for your
competitions and other activities in the past year;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Other support you got from the society in your region;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Other types of collaboration with various
organizations</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">4) Summary</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Strengths and weaknesses of your
activities in the past year, comparied to past years;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">- Ideas/suggestions about how to further
advance RoboCup activities in your region in coming years.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Look forward to seeing all of you at the
event and the meeting soon!</span></p><div>
<font size="3"><br></font></div><div>Levent and Xiaoping</div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:宋体;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">On
behalf of Trustees</span><br><br><br></div><blockquote class="ReferenceQuote" style="padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px;border-left:#b6b6b6 2px solid;margin-right:0" name="replyContent"><div style="line-height:1.4">Dear Regional Committee Representatives,<br><br>This is a reminder that the Regional Committee Assembly meeting will be held tomorrow at 17:00 in the trustee's room, which is next to the hall for simulation 2D/3D.<br><br>Look forward to seeing you there.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Xiaoping<br><br><br></div>On 2017-07-16 11:18 , <a href="mailto:xpchen@ustc.edu.cn" target="_blank">Xiao-Ping Chen</a> Wrote: <br><br><blockquote id="ntes-andriodmail-quote" style="margin:0px;padding-left:1ex;border-left:#ccc 1px solid"><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>
</blockquote></blockquote>