[Sig-l] Scheduling of SIG workshops for 07

[KRISTIN R ESCHENFELDER]

Greeting Dick

I understand the need to move SIG pre con events to _after_ the
conference.  My question is, will these post conference events be
allowed to price themselves to "break even" rather than generating a
return to ASIST? Or will all pre and post con events be required to
generate a return to ASIST?  Can you please provide clarification of
this point?

Background:
SIG SI (in collaboration with other SIGs) intends to continue offering
annual or biannual pre/post con research symposium where researchers can
disseminate work in progress (e.g., shorter papers).  An increase in
costs would discourage attendance at our events and particularly
attendance by cash starved PhD students. 

Respectfully yours,

Kristin

Kristin Eschenfelder
Associate Professor
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
eschenfelder at wisc.edu
1-608-263-2105
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~kreschen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikel (Micki) Breitenstein" <mikel.breitenstein at verizon.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: [Sig-l] Scheduling of SIG workshops for 07
To: Richard Hill <rhill at asis.org>, sig-l at asis.org, board at asis.org

> Dick -- Thanks for this very interesting message -- I don't think 
> SIG-CR, one of the traditional workshop groups, ever had a role in 
> pricing.... not to my knowledge. I agree that these need to be 
> priced to support themeselves and be worth it to ASIST for all the 
> many costs, and also wonder why they are being held by so many all 
> of a sudden.  These are costly efforts. How did those very low 
> prices get set?  Why are so many running a workshop? It's a lot of 
> work! Did they get ASIST approval?
> 
> I think I can speak for SIG-CR that we consider the pre-con 
> workshops to be a serious commitment by the SIG and by ASIST and to 
> of course require a payment by participants -- determined by ASIST -
> - that suits ASIST and in the case of for-profit providers, to 
> cover their costs.
> 
> Thanks, Micki Breitenstein   SIG-CR Board Member
> 
> >From: Richard Hill <rhill at asis.org>
> >Date: 2006/10/25 Wed PM 02:29:06 CDT
> >To: sig-l at asis.org, board at asis.org
> >Subject: [Sig-l] Scheduling of SIG workshops for 07
> 
> >At the '05 Annual meeting there were two pre cons sponsored by 
> SIGs (CR and
> >USE).  This year (AM 06) there are seven:  
> >
> >* Shaping Things to Come - Daser Summit III and Tri Society 
> Symposium ($85)
> >* SIG CR 16th Annual Classification Research Workshop: Social
> >Classification: Panacea or Pandora?  ($105)
> >* Symposia: Interrogating the Social Realities of Information and
> >Communications Systems (SIG SI) ($40)
> >* Doing Ethnography: Examining ICT Use in Context (SIG SI) ($40)
> >* Information Realities: Exploring Affective and Emotional Aspects in
> >Information Seeking and Use: 
> >SIG USE 6th Annual Research Symposium ($80)
> >* Workshop on Blogs and Wikis:  How They Can Improve Conference
> >Communications (SIGs BWP & DL) ($40)
> >* SIG HCI Research Symposium: Human Computer Interaction in 
> Information>Intensive Environments ($45)
> >
> >Our desire is not to limit SIG sponsored workshops.  But this is 
> becoming>increasingly challenging, as these sessions complete with 
> our normal
> >pre-conference offerings: compete in terms of bodies, time, and 
> space (all
> >of our prices from the hotel are contingent on how much space we 
> require).>And the SIG sessions are frequently configured to compete 
> on a price basis,
> >with SIG "workshops" being priced and configured only to break 
> even or to
> >return any surplus to the SIG's projects.  The "normal" pre cons 
> are priced
> >to provide a return over costs to the society.  In FY '05, the 
> return was
> >$13,871.
> >
> >Hence, for AM 07, it is our intention to have pre cons that are 
> priced to
> >provide a return to ASIS&T scheduled on the Friday and Saturday 
> preceding>the meeting and to move the SIG Workshops to the Thursday 
> and Friday
> >following the meeting.
> >
> >_____
> >Richard B. Hill
> >Executive Director
> >American Society for Information Science and Technology
> >1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510
> >Silver Spring, MD  20910
> >Fax: (301) 495-0810
> >Voice: (301) 495-0900 
> >
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