• SIGCSE 2006 is 37th Technical Symposium
• US location: 2006 in Houston; 2007 in Covington, Kentucky; 2008 in Portland, Oregon
• Attendance: 1200+
  Registration for next month's SIGCSE 2007 currently 978 (increasing 25-40/day),
  456 currently registered for 1 or more of 37 half-day workshops
• Low costs: Advance registration for members: $160 (includes conference luncheon, reception)
• Associated workshops, Doctoral Consortium, Workshop for Chairs
• Double-blind reviewing utilizes SIGCSE members
  • For SIGCSE 2006, each of 294 papers assigned 6 reviewers
  • 710 reviewers completed 1560 reviews
  • authors and reviewers can read reviews of others after acceptances determined
• Analysis of variability of reviewer ratings with SIGCSE 2000
  • As part of regular reviewing, each of 10 papers sent to over 100 reviewers as part of regular reviewing
  • 482 reviewers completed 1917 reviews (1046 for statistical sample)
  • Studies both statistical variation and reviewer characteristics (e.g., gender, international/US, familiarity, review in group, author, hardcopy/electronic submission)
  • Details published in SIGCSE Bulletin inroads in September 2002
• Significant surplus, largely due to exhibits

• ITiCSE 2006 is 11th annual conference
• European Conference: 2006 in Bologna, Italy; 2007 in Dundee, Scotland; 2008 in Madrid, Spain
• Attendance: about 200
• Advanced registration fees $450 (US) for members (includes all luncheons, one dinner, reception)
• Double-blind reviewing utilizes SIGCSE members
  • For ITiCSE 2006, each of 196 papers assigned 6 reviewers
  • 592 reviewers
• Budgeted to break even
• Working Groups develop reports during the conference on proposed topics

• New conference to alternate between US and Europe (2005 in Seattle; 2006 in Canterbury)
• Attendance at first conference: about 60
• Advanced registration for members: $150
• More traditional reviewing process, guided by Program Committee
• Budgeted to break even

created 26 January 2006 last revised 10 February 2006

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