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SIGMOD-94 Program Committee Chair Milestones
(This is in addition to the conference milestones.)
SD = submission deadline
PCM = PC meeting
C = Conference
Meet with current chairs and previous year's chairs
[C - 1 year]
Send detailed explanation of procedures to each chair, so that everyone is
pulling together; ask for input on any special aspects
[SD - 6 months]
Ask PC members for their topic preferences
[SD - 3 months]
Ask PC members for their coordinates (email, FAX, fed ex address,
phone for fed ex)
[SD - 3 months]
Get commitments for local staff for week following SD and week preceding PCM
[SD - 3 months]
Arrange details of the PC meeting (room, hotel, special rates)
[SD - 3 months]
Ask PC members for their preference of PC meeting date
(my experience is that they prefer Saturday)
[SD - 1 month]
Complete software
[SD - 2 weeks]
Test out software and procedures thoroughly before the onslaught
[SD - 2 weeks]
Warn PC members that packets are coming, and indicate deadline
[SD - 1 week]
Send acknowledgements via email
[SD + epsilon]
Enter papers into database
[SD + epsilon]
Assign papers to reviewers; add assignments to DB; check to ensure that
each paper has exactly 3 reviewers (except perhaps for PC
papers, which may need an extra review or two)
[SD + delta]
Send packets to PC via federal express
[SD + 5 days]
Send acknowledgements via post
[SD + 1 week]
Send submitted materials to other chairs (e.g., videos, panel proposals)
coordinate acknowledgements
[SD + 1 week]
Ask PC members for low confidence papers, to reassign (this will be an on-going
process)
[SD + 1 week]
Take a short vacation; you'll need it!
[SD + 2 weeks]
Remind PC members of deadline for reviews
[SD + 1 month]
Ask for initial impressions from other chairs, to start ranking submissions
[SD + 1 month]
Remind PC members to register to get special rate
[PCM - 1 month]
Decide on other portions of the technical program (tutorials, panels, etc.)
so that the exact number of papers to accept is known;
coordinate notification (for after the PCM)
[PCM - 2 weeks]
Remind PC members of deadline
[PCM - 2 weeks]
Receive reviews via email, ack reviews
[PCM - 1 week]
Process reviews into database; check for missing reviews; let PC members know
which reviews are still needed
[PCM - 1 week]
Identify reviewers for missing reviews (you'll probably have to review a
few yourself)
[PCM - 5 days]
Identify controversial papers; send reviews of such papers to reviewers
for discussion via email
[PCM - 5 days]
Identify papers will two or more low confidence reviews (there shouldn't
be any at this point, but if there are, find another reviewer)
[PCM - 5 days]
Discuss controversial PC papers via email; decide on acceptance/rejection
[PCM - 5 days]
Prepare sanitized copies of reviews (just the portions to be seen by authors)
[PCM - 3 days]
Prepare summaries of reviews (one listing just reviews by that reviewer,
one ordered by paper number, one ordered by overall score)
[PCM - 2 days]
Print reviews for PC meeting
[PCM - 2 days]
Print email discussion of controversial papers, for reference at PC meeting
[PCM - 1 day]
Send acceptances and rejections by email, with sanitized reviews
[PCM + 1 day]
Send summary to PC of accepted papers, remainder of technical program
[PCM + 2 days]
Send notifications by post, with hard copy of sanitized reviews
[PCM + 1 week]
Decide on best paper nominations; send papers to best paper chair(s)
[PCM + 2 weeks]
Take another short vacation
[PCM + 2 weeks]
Request addresses of external reviewers; send them thank you letters
[PCM + 1 month]
Send certificates and thank you letters to the PC
[PCM + 1 month]
Prepare best paper certificates; get signed by best paper chairs
[C - 1 month]
Prepare summary to present at the conference
[C - 1 week]
Coordinate conference introduction with general chair
[C - 1 week]
Check to make sure proceedings have arrived at conference site
[C - 5 days]
Send certificates and thank you letters to the chairs
[C + 1 week]
Hand baton to next year's PC chair
[C + 1 week]
Take another vacation, this one a long one!
[C + 2 weeks]