Responsibility

The Steering Committee (The 'Legislative' Function): The Steering Committee is a representative deliberative assembly created to advise 'operations' on policy and steer the conference in the direction deemed best. This includes Chair selection for each edition; The organisation holds a virtual teleconferenced closed steering committee and operations meeting twice per year discussing direction and matters relating to the responsibilities identified above, and an open meeting at each W4A conference in which conference matters are discussed with the community.

In addition, submissions from the Programme Chair will be reviewed by the Steering Committee who will provide unified anonymous feedback outside of the submissions management system. Finally, members of the steering committee will also be the advocates for the conference paper reviewing process unless prior commitments or conflicts of interest (as defined by the ACM) prevent this.

The W4A conference is gratis; however flights and accommodation (and other expenses) are not paid.

Timeline 2011

All dates are the target FINISH dates.

• 31-Mar-2010 STEERING - Decide on GC / PC / CC / SIC
• 31-May-2010 STEERING - Decide on Next Theme