Charter

Mission Statement

• To foster innovation and advance technical development in the theory, practice, and application of code generation and optimization, encompassing static, feedback-directed, and runtime techniques.
• To promote cooperation and substantive technical exchange among members of academia and industry who are working in this area.
• To provide an annual meeting for the presentation and discussion of technical papers, and provide a means for the broader dissemination of these papers.

Steering Committee Members

Responsibilities

• Actively contribute and work to implement ways to improve CGO's vision, focus, growth, relevance, and success. Nominate and elect the annual chairs.
• Oversee the adjustment of the technical focus direction, as reflected in the call for papers.
• Be willing to serve on the program committee and attend all steering committee meetings.
• Take an active role in the CGO conference each year.
• Elect steering committee members, steering committee chair, and annual chairs.
• No member of the steering committee accepts any legal liability for the activities of CGO or persons at CGO events.

Term: 3 years

Term limits: None

Eligibility

• Must be actively involved in research and development of CGO techniques and systems.
• Must be an active participant in CGO, not missing its events for more than one year in a row.

Number of members on the steering committee

• Shall not be more than nine (raised from seven in 2018) or fewer than three without an unanimous vote by the steering committee.

Steering Committee Chair

All of the responsibilities of a steering committee member, plus:

• Take the initiative to actively lead CGO, fostering a vision, shepherding its growth and vibrance, keeping it relevant to the changing needs of the community.
• Set an agenda for and run the steering committee meeting.
• Implement the decisions of the steering committee, or delegate responsibility to do so.
• See that the next year's chairs and location are selected in time to make an annoucement at CGO.
• Oversee the finances and management of CGO, delegating these responsibilities to annual chairs as appropriate.

Term: 3 years

Term limit: Cannot be elected to consecutive terms, but eligible for re-election thereafter.

Eligibility

• Must meet eligibility requirements of a steering committee member.
• Must have served on the steering committee for at least one year.

Annual Chairs

The program chair(s) and the general chair(s) are collectively the annual chairs for the purposes of this charter.

Responsibilities

Manage the annual conference, including:

• Set a tone and direction, as expressed in the call for papers.
• Select the program committee and appoint any remaining positions in the organizing committee in consultation with the steering committee.
• Handle publicity, logistics, registration, and finances.
• Organize and run the final program schedule, e.g. arrange panels, invited speakers, awards.

Eligibility

• Must be actively involved in research and development of CGO techniques and systems.
• Must be an active participant in CGO.

Elections and Other Changes

• Election of steering committee chair shall be by majority vote of the steering committee.
• Election of steering committee members shall be by majority vote of the steering committee, in consultation with sponsoring organizations.
• Election of the next annual chairs shall be by majority vote of the steering committee and the current year's annual chairs, in consultation with sponsoring organizations.
• Voting should occur only after a full discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the nominated candidate. Discussion should be mediated by the steering committee chair, and members should strive for consensus.
• Ordinarily, all voting is open. Any steering committee member may request a secret vote, the results of which will be tallied by a mutually-agreed upon third party.
• This charter may be amended or augmented only by a two-thirds majority vote of members of the steering committee.

Conference Proposal Procedure

The next year's conference call for papers should be presented at the business meeting and distributed at the conference. The following should be part of the CFP:

• General location and approximate dates, if not the actual hotel and dates contracted.
• Primary chairs: general, program, finance, publicity, local arrangements, workshop, and tutorial.
• Paper solicitation, with dates, topic areas, and submission procedures.

Proposals for future conferences should be handled as follows:

• Proposals for years n+2 and n+3 should ordinarily be made at the business meeting for conference year n.
• All proposals should specify a proposed program chair, general chair, approximate location, and an argument for that location. Ideally, they should include approximate hotel, venue and transportation costs, and expected attendance.
• The steering committee will select the venue for year n+2 from among the competing proposals in the months after the conference in year n, and may request additional information from the proposers to make this decision.
• The steering committee will vote to select the venue and annual chairs for year n+2.

Events

The current charter was ratified on 4/28/2010 by the serving steering committee:

• Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai
• David August
• Carol Edit
• Mary Hall
• Kim Hazelwood
• CJ Newburn
• Ben Zorn

The original charter was ratified on 8/15/2001 by the following steering committee:

• Brad Calder
• Jong-Deok Choi
• Tom Conte
• Evelyn Duesterwald
• CJ Newburn
• Mike Smith