From: Peter S. <ps...@cs...> - 2008-09-14 11:00:36
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Dear all, Sahar recently sent the very informative message below about the organizational structure of the soccer simulation league. She asked me to add some information about the trustees for you as well. Trustees ======== The RoboCup board of trustees is responsible for the legal and high-level organizational aspects of the RoboCup federation. For example, the trustees enter into sponsorship agreements, deal with trademarks, decide on locations of RoboCup and enter into contracts with the local organizers, authorize use of the RoboCup name and logos, and authorize national committees and local events. The trustees also decide when to add or remove leagues and subleagues, appoint members of other committees, and manage the by-laws of the Federation. Most importantly, the trustees work hard to further the overall image and scientific goals of RoboCup and to keep the organization exciting and useful for all of the participants. The trustees serve 3-year terms. They are allowed to serve 2 consecutive terms after which they must spend at least one year off of the board. New trustees are elected by the national committees and by the current trustees. Current and past executive committee members are eligible. The trustees are not specifically assigned to any league, but the ones whom you may know from the soccer simulation league are: Xiaoping Chen Itsuki Noda Daniel Polani Martin Riedmiller Peter Stone Ubbo Visser Best, Peter > Dear all, > > RoboCup'08 has been finished and works for RoboCup'09 has already been > started in committees. You will receive updates from committees activities > later in the mailing lists. The following are list of committee members for > RoboCup09 which will be held in Graz, Austria [1]. > > > Organizing Committee (OC) > ================= > OC is responsible for organizing of the league, this includes setting > schedule and rules, updating website of the league, performing qualification > process, deciding about hardwares (with local organizers) and running games > during competitions (organizing the league in RC'09). OC has a close > collaboration with TC. > OC members are selected by the RoboCup federation (trustees of the league). > > 3D, 3D Development > --------------------------------- > - Mart van de Sanden (Chair) > - Feng Xue > - Carlos Bustamante > > 2D > ---- > - Stephan Gspandl (Local Chair) > - Tobias Springenberg > > Mixed Reality (MR) > ------------------------------ > - Matthias Bohnen > > > Technical Committee (TC) > Executive Committee (Exec.) > ================= > Soccer Simulation (as like as all other leagues in RoboCup) is not just a > competition. The aim is to in one hand prepare a testbed for researchers to > implement their ideas and test their methods in a simulated multi agent > environment and on the other hand keep moving forward to have more realistic > environment and join to other leagues to achieve the common goal of the > RoboCup. So, every year we have developments in the league (by MC and help > of teams). These developments shows if the league can be continued in > RoboCup anymore or not (this will be decided by Federation). > TC is responsible for planning for the future of the league in order to keep > in the roadmap of the whole RoboCup. TC has close collaboration with both MC > and OC, also it gets feedbacks from teams in the mailing lists. > Exec. committee members are members of TC as well. They presents the league > and its achievements to the Federation every year and have contacts with > other leagues and federation to have better plan for the future of the > league. > > TC members are selected based in an election by votes of team leaders. > Usually there is one appointed member who is chosen by trustees and execs > to be in TC. > > Exec. > -------- > - Oliver Obst (Exec.) > - Hidehisa Akiyama (Exec.) > - Sahar Asadi (Exec.) > > 2D > ---- > - Sebastian Marian (2D) > - Ke Shi (2D, appointed) > > 3D > ---- > - Sander van Dijk (3D) > - Jie Ma(3D) > - Hedayat Vatankhah (3D, appointed) > > MR > ---- > - Rodrigo da Silva Guerra (MR) > - Matthias Bohnen (MR) > > > Maintenance Committee (MC) > ================== > I believe that Joschka already explained very clear about MC > responsibilities. As you see most of the development is based on efforts of > MC. Many of you know the problems, have strength on parts of the main > issues in MC, so we really be happy to have you in MC to improve the league. > > Members of MC will be announced later, after hearing from volunteers :-) > > > Teams and members of the community > ====================== > As you can see, the whole league is based on activities of members of the > community. We need ideas and feedbacks from teams, bug reports of the > simulators, helps in providing new tools or packages, etc; otherwise, there > won't be any development anymore. > > Thank you for helping us :-) > > > [1] http://www.robocup2009.org/ > > > Best, > Sahar Asadi |