1. 1 Membership and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB) Liaison Report to Standards Activities Board (SAB) MGAB Liaison David Schultz March 26, 2010

2. 2 MGAB formed this year The IEEE-CS Chapter Activities Board has merged with the Membership Committee to form the new Membership and Geographic Activities Board (MGAB) Prof. Sankaran chairs the MGAB My specific function this year is to chair the Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP)

3. 3 MGAB Organization Sankaran has organized the MGAB into three committees –Membership Development Committee (membership functions from old Membership Committee) –Geographic Unit Operations Committee (Regional Representatives from old CAB) –Awards and Recognition Committee (including DVP and Member Visitor Programs)

4. 4 Summary of Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP) Speakers are nominated and approved for inclusion in the DVP Chapters invite DVP speakers to address an upcoming chapter meeting The program has a budget to include travel reimbursements for DVP speakers We have speakers from all fields of computer science and engineering We would welcome additional speakers from the Standards arena

5. 5 Status Report for DVP (as of December 2009) Last fall, we received 12 strong nominations for new DVP Speakers We anticipate 25 or 30 DVP visits this year DVP budget was cut last year, and will probably be cut further in 2010 Money lasts longer when speakers combine several chapter visits into a tour

6. 6 Geographical Distribution of DVP Speaker Requests (for 2009) Last year, the DVP speaker requests were distributed as follows –23 in North America –5 in Latin America –1 in Asia –0 in Europe –29 speakers total for 2009

7. 7 Geographical Distribution of DVP Speaker Requests (for 2008) In 2008, for comparison, the DVP speaker requests were distributed as follows –14 in North America –8 in Latin America –2 in Asia –3 in Europe –27 speakers total for 2008

8. 8 Geographic Distribution of DVP Speakers (for 2010) As of January 2010, here is the geographic distribution of speakers, by continent –North America – 20 –Latin America – 10 –Asia – 14 –Europe – 3 We’re trying to recruit additional speakers from Europe – let me know if you can think of any potential candidates