Reply to:Prof. Pere Brunet
Dept de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Av. Diagonal 647, Edif ETSEIB, Pl. 8
E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Dear colleague, dear member of the Eurographics Association,
In this second letter as EG chairman, I would like to inform you on some of the services and activities we are offering to the members of the Association. Besides the Computer Graphics Journal, the annual event and the different workshops, Eurographics is devoted to the introduction of attractive new services (Digital library, on-line services) to face the challenges of the oncoming years. If you have already renewed your EG membership, I would like to thank you for putting again your trust on us. If you still have not renewed, let me encourage you to do it and to continue using our services !
Starting with our Computer Graphics Forum Journal, I am pleased to report that thanks to our CGF managers (Editors and production team at Blackwell), we are now in a good production and delivery schedule. You have probably received the two first issues of 2001's volume, and the third issue with the Conference papers will be distributed in Manchester to EG'01 participants.
Also, the Association decided to retroactively digitize all Forum and Annual Event material back to 1990. As of this week, all volumes from Volume 14 on are now completely available in high-quality electronic form. Please visit the Digital Library at http://diglib.eg.org/ to check the new material and to access the Computer Graphics Forum with multimedia attachments (both published and accepted papers), the Conference and Workshop Proceedings and the Bibliography Database with the BibTeX database of papers.
One of the Eurographics goals is to create innovative new offers and services, together with good quality events and the journal. Local contacts in different countries will be used to promote country-based events and to incentivate local initiatives and activities. Promoting local initiatives and the exchange of ideas and proposals for new services and activities is fundamental. Local chapters will have a central role in these iniciatives. In this context, I am very glad to announce that a new EG chapter has been created in Italy. Our best wishes to the chapter committee (Monica Bordegoni, R. Scopigno, P. Pili, F. Giannini, G. Cosmai, S. Cinti and Luciani) !
With regard to membership services we have two new packages which we
expect to be highly attractive. The all-inclusive Organizational Membership
(for 1290 SFr per year) offers all services and benefits previously known
as ‘Institutional Membership’ with all options taken. We encourage you
to have
a look at the details at http://www.eg.org/EG/Organization/member.html
. The Educational Package (for 250 SFr per year) offers all students, faculty
and staff at one institution electronic access to STARs, Tutorials, the
full ‘Best Paper Award’ contributions from the Annual event and CGF’s content
pages. ( http://www.eg.org/EG/organization/edu_member.pdf
).
In addition to the annual Conference, Eurographics is organizing a number of Workshops (on Visualization, Virtual Environments (VE), Rendering, Hardware, Animation & Simulation, Multimedia). Details on these events together with announcements of upcoming EG Workshops can be found at the online pages of the Workshop Working Groups http://www.eg.org/EG/Docs/Workshops.html .
With regard to Publications, please note that EG has discontinued the printed list of bookshop items and replaced it by the online publications list. The online list is updated as soon as new publications appear.
For your calendar, please don’t forget to mark EG’2001 in Manchester from September 4-7, 2001 ( http://www.eg.org/EG2001 )
I would not like to finish without thanking the EG vice-chairs, the officers, the members of the Executive Board and Executive Committee and all volunteers for the time and effort they devote to the Association Their time and work has resulted on an improvement of the overall services to members and on the introduction of attractive new services to face the challenges of the oncoming years.
I do hope that you will use the new services offered by EG and you find
them helpful. Please visit our organization
pages for more information.If you have any queries or suggestions please
feel free to contact the Association’s officer you feel most appropriate,
or myself
With best wishes,
Yours faithfully
Pere Brunet
Chairman (pere@lsi.upc.es)