SIGMOBILE Professional and Student Chapters continue the work of SIGMOBILE within their local regions by
bringing together individuals with an interest in
mobile systems, users, data and computing. The Chapters
consist of students and professionals from academia,
industry and government.
Chapters Directory
Here's a listing of current local SIGMOBILE chapters:
Why Start a Local SIGMOBILE Chapter?
- To offer an opportunity for SIGMOBILE members in local regions
to network with colleagues.
- To organize activities for professional development. These may
include events such as technical workshops, student competitions, and
talks from local community leaders.
- To develop forums for sharing expertise through technical
exchange of ideas via email newsletter, email distribution lists and web
pages that contain content that is locally important.
- To invite ACM Distinguished Lecturers for invigorating talks by
international experts.
- To nominate local experts for national and international
recognition awards.
- To nominate students for scholarships and travel grants to
attend SIGMOBILE conferences.
Additional Benefits
- Chapters receive complimentary subscription to ACM Mobile Computing
and Communications Review. They also receive complimentary copies of
SIGMOBILE conference proceedings: MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys and SenSys;
When available SIGMOBILE Workshop proceedings may also be provided.
- Chapters receive support for organizing receptions for local members
at major SIGMOBILE conferences.
- Chapter articles are published as Global News from SIGMOBILE
Chapters in the ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review.
- Chapters provide organizational and management skills to people with
leadership abilities. Chapter leaders are able to market this experience
to step up to the national and international levels or to develop
businesses.
- Chapter meetings can result in building contacts and friendships that
can lead to new startup businesses.
Chapter Recognition
Eventually SIGMOBILE intends to institute the Outstanding Chapter Award.
This award will consist of a plaque, and travel expenses for the winning
Chapter Chair to attend MobiCom or MobiHoc to receive the award.
The Chapter home pages will be on SIGMOBILE's server.
How to Start a Local SIGMOBILE Chapter
Start meeting informally to establish a core group
interested in mobile systems and potentially interested
to form a SIGMOBILE Local Chapter.
This core group of members should join ACM or ACM
SIGMOBILE and designate at least three interim officers:
a chair, a vice-chair and a secretary-treasurer. The interim officers must be members of both ACM and ACM SIGMOBILE. To petition for recognition as a Local Chapter this core
group will need to grow to ten in number.
The core group and its interim officers must submit a petition of recognition, together with a set of bylaws under which the Chapter will operate, to Lauren Ryan at ACM Headquarters who will then submit them to the appropriate boards for ratification. The petition is available from ACM Headquarters. A bylaws template for SIG Local Chapters is available on-line. When submitting your petition, please keep in mind that SIGMOBILE has a policy which requires it's Chapters to have names of cities or regions, not countries or states. You will find more information on ACM's web site for Professional Chapters and Student Chapters.
Resources
When your bylaws have been approved, you will be chartered as a Chapter.
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