ksbooth@watcgl.UUCP (08/10/87)
The following is a reply I sent to someone in Sweden who enquired about
SIGGRAPH local groups and the educational discount for SIGGRAPH course
notes. My reply was bounced by the mail system after a number of hops,
so I'm posting it in the hope that he will see it in the news group.
I think the information is of sufficient general interest that it deserves
to be in the news group, although some of it has appeared before.
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Yes, there are SIGGRAPH local groups outside of the US. Be warned,
however, that they pose many difficulties (mostly political). A local
group is intended to be a group of people in a single city. We have
requests to have local groups cover entire countries in Europe.
SIGGRAPH doesn't like to do this.
If you wish to participate next year for a set of course notes, contact
Steve Cunningham (I have forwarded your request to him) to get into the
educational directory. You will be asked to pay the discount ("at cost")
price for the notes plus shipping charges to Sweden for the SIGGRAPH '88
course notes.
Steve Cunningham
Computer Science Department
California State University, Stanislaus
Turlock, CA 95380
(209) 667-3176 (work)
rsc@csustan
SIGGRAPH does not have formal "alliances" with other national computer graphics
groups because (a) we are a subunit of ACM and all such arrangements would have
to go through ACM, (b) in some countries there are competing groups and we do
not want to "choose sides". There is a group called the International
Federation for Computer Graphics, which is attempting to include all computer
graphics groups. SIGGRAPH does not have a formal relationship, but does send
a representative to their meetings. Here is an address.
Mark Sneddon
Secretariat
International Federation for Computer Graphics
P. O. Box 53
Spring Hill, Queensland 4000
Australia
The person to contact about becoming a SIGGRAPH local group is Steve Keith.
Stephan R. Keith
424 Custer Rd.
Hayward, CA 94544
(415) 964-6197 (work)
keith@AMES-PIONEER.ARPA