ACM SIGCOMM
Advice for Conference Site Proposals

Site Proposals "must" have:

• Conference chair(s) - you will need to procure support  from your institution, for this extended effort and possibly administrative support.  One of the conference chairs must live in the proposed city.  (There is no requirement that you have a co-chair.)  Please indicate the support that the local institution(s) will be providing.
• NO mention of who will be the Program chair(s).  This is decided by the SIGCOMM Technical advisory committee, whose procedures are being drafted.
• Candidate years:  SIGCOMM currently rotates between "West Coast of North America", "East Coast of North America",  and Europe.)
• Candidate dates:  The traditional SIGCOMM week is the week before the U.S. Labor Day Holiday.  If this doesn't work for your locations, please explain why and suggest what does work best for your location?  (try to avoid local holidays and certainly any religious holidays; and remember that moving the date later will conflict with more academic attendees).
• When does the semester start at the hosting (or nearby) institution?  (If  SIGCOMM does not overlap with the fall semester, we can possibly avoid some scheduling constraints.)
• Candidate Symposium Locations - given the growing size of SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM99 had 580 registrants yet comfortably fit into a 525 seat auditorium), the location for 2001+ must provide 625 seats and preferably 700 seats.   For each candidate location of the single track conference indicate its maximum size, location, auditorium seating which is STRONGLY preferred, and whether they have a raised ceiling (mandatory in hotel ballrooms).  Note: both SIGCOMM 2000 and SIGCOMM 98 had approximately 425 attendees.
• A short list of candidate hotels (and their price ranges).  Note: once approved, the ACM SIGCOMM Program Director will negotiate with the hotels for the lowest room rates (on your behalf).
• Assuming that the conference is not at a candidate hotel, then list one or more locations where  the breaks/lunches could be held.
• Weather: average highs/lows for that time of year.
• Overview of Travel costs and accessibility.
• At least two conference committee members (including the General Chair(s)) should have attended several SIGCOMM conferences.

• Price range of lower cost housing/hotels for students
• Draft of ideas for the social event (frequently on the Wednesday night).
• Draft of locations for tutorials.
• Draft schedule for the week.