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ISCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTERSPEECH 2010

Makuhari, Japan

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Agenda

1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes ofthe 2009 General Assembly (Brighton)

2. President’s report

3. Treasurer’s report

4. Approval of the reports

5. Approval of proposed changes to ISCA StatutesA4.1 and A5.1

6. ISCA goals for 2010-2011

7. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

8. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly

9. Any other business

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Minutes of the 2009 General Assembly in Brighton, UK, 8 September 2009, 6.00 pm

1. Opening remarks and approval of the Minutes of the 2008 General Assembly (Brisbane)

2. President’s report

3. Treasurer’s report

4. Approval of the reports

5. Announcements of changes to the ISCA Board

6. ISCA goals for 2009-2010

7. Information on proposal to change ISCA Statute A4.1 which restricts Board membership to two members per country

8. Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

9. Announcement of next ISCA General Assembly

10. Any other business

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President’s Report

• The ISCA Board• Recent Board Meetings• Secretariat and Membership• Membership Services• ISCA Web• The ISCA Online Archive• Workshops• SIGs• ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program • Industry Liaison• Liaison with other Organizations• Journals• Conferences• Grants and Awards• Student Liaison• ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material• Others

Isabel TrancosoPresident

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ISCA Board

J.François BonastreVice-President

David HouseSecretary

Bernd MöbiusTreasurer

Tanja SchultzFuture Conferences

Michael PichenySIGs, Ind., Journals

Yoshinori SagisakaDL, SIGs (language)

Alan BlackGrants & Awards

Helen MengSAC Liaison

Isabel TrancosoPresident

Haizhou LiWeb & Archive

Yannis StylianouEduc., Video Archive

D. O‘ShaugnessyConferences

Nick CampbellWorkshops

Keikichi HiroseFellows

Wolfgang HessArchive

Chris WellekensISCApad

Ex-officio

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Recent Board Meetings

• Sept. 2006: Pittsburgh (2)• Dec. 2006: Virtual• Jan. 2007: Virtual• April 2007: Virtual• Aug. 2007: Antwerp (2)• Dec. 2007: Virtual• June 2008: Virtual• Sept. 2008: Brisbane (2)• Dec. 2008: Virtual• April 2009: Taipei (at ICASSP)• Sept. 2009: Brighton (2)• Nov. 2009: Virtual• Mar. 2010: Dallas (at ICASSP)• Apr. 2010: Virtual• Sept. 2010: Virtual (informal)• Sept. 2010: Makuhari (1, +1 planned)

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Secretariat and Membership

• Direct contact with members• Membership database• Financial transactions and administration

– Support for ITRWs– Membership dues

• Web content coordination• Documentation of ISCA board meetings• Elections to the Board and Advisory Council• ISCA Statutes and Bylaws

Please give us input and suggestions either this week at the ISCA Booth or later: secretariat@isca-speech.org

David HouseISCA Secretary

Manu FoxonetAdministrative

Assistant

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Membership Development

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Membership by country (june 2010)

Japan 267 16,90% Norway 19 1,20% Iran 2 0,13%

USA 245 15,51% Czech Republic 18 1,14% Algeria 1 0,06%

France 200 12,66% India 16 1,01% Argentina 1 0,06%

Germany 106 6,71% Singapore 15 0,95% Bangladesh 1 0,06%

United Kingdom 97 6,14% Greece 14 0,89% Chile 1 0,06%

Korea 64 4,05% Brasil 12 0,76% Cuba 1 0,06%

China 49 3,10% Denmark 11 0,70% Egypt 1 0,06%

Spain 44 2,78% Hong Kong 11 0,70% Indonesia 1 0,06%

Netherlands 40 2,53% Poland 11 0,70% Latvia 1 0,06%

Australia 37 2,34% Austria 8 0,51% Lithuania 1 0,06%

Canada 32 2,03% Russia 8 0,51% Luxembourg 1 0,06%

Belgium 29 1,84% Israel 7 0,44% Malaysia 1 0,06%

Italy 29 1,84% South Africa 6 0,38% Malta 1 0,06%

Taiwan 27 1,71% Hungary 4 0,25% New Zealand 1 0,06%

Sweden 26 1,65% Thailand 4 0,25% Serbia 1 0,06%

Finland 25 1,58% Estonia 3 0,19% Slovakia 1 0,06%

Ireland 25 1,58% Slovenia 3 0,19% Ukraine 1 0,06%

Switzerland 22 1,39% Turkey 3 0,19% Zimbabwe 1 0,06%

Portugal 21 1,33% Vietnam 3 0,19% Total: 1580

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Membership Services

An institutional member is a group membership for an (unique) institution

Main idea:– The IM institution could benefit from the ISCA members’

special prices for different people depending on the ISCA event

– A simpler administrative procedure

Not very popular so far:– Has been limited to 5 grouped subscriptions– The members were not identified and and could not

participate individually in association activities (elections)

Institutional Members:Jean-François

Bonastre

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Institutional Members - renewed

• For each IM, some people can be identified at the subscription time as individual ISCA members

• Remaining members of the pack benefit also from the ISCA reduced fees and can change on event to another

• Four packs: – 5 members, 3 identified, fees = 240 euros

– 10 members, 6 identified, fees = 480 euros

– 15 members, 9 identified, fees = 720 euros

– 20 members, 12 identified, fees = 960 euros

(1 IM could subscribe for several packs)

• The IM are ISCA partners and benefit from:– Logo in the ISCA website

– A DVD copy of the archive each year

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Web

• New service provider (InCampus) since July 2009– Hosting ISCA Web and ISCA student portal in one location

• New ISCA Web was launched in December 2009– Supported by a content management system for the first time – New layout and ISCA Archive (IS & Workshop proceedings)

• New facelift of ISCApad since August 2010– Online ISCApad publication– New editorial facility– Seamless integration with ISCA Web

• To come– New ISCA membership portal ready in October 2010

Haizhou Li

Chris WellekensISCApad

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• Contains all former INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH and ICSLP) conferences and all ITRWs and ETRWs from 1987 to 2009 in machine-readable form

• > 100 events • Available on website since August 2003

http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/index.html – Abstracts accessible for everybody– Full papers accessible for members only– Use your individual ISCA password to access

(password assistance on the web page)• Since 2007 linked to Google Scholar, thanks to David

Gelbart and the Student Committee

Wolfgang Hess

The ISCA Online Archive

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ISCA Workshops(ITRWs and supported events)

2010

19 wrk/conf. sponsored

(2 ITRW)

Contact ISCA

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ISCA support for workshops

– Web and ISCAPAD announcements

– Grants for students

– Archive

Nick Campbell

Additional services

– Secretariat support– Online banking service– Online registration– Monetary advance– Web/Mail announcement

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ISCA Workshops(ITRWs and supported events)

• SSW7, Sept 2010, Kyoto• SAPA2010, September 2010, Tokyo• Blizzard Challenge, September,

Kyoto• SIGDIAL, September 2010, Tokyo• DiSS-LPSS, September 2010 Tokyo• TSD, September 2010, Brno• Exling, August 2010, Athens• ENTERFACE'10, Aqugust 2010,

Amsterdam• ACL, July 2010, Uppsala• Odyssey, June 2010, Brno

• QoMEX, June 2010, Trondheim• JEP, May 2010, Mons• LREC, May 2010, Malta• Speech Prosody, May 2010, Chicago• SLTU, May 2010, Penang• PROPOR, April 2010, Porto Alegre• ASRU, December 2009, Merano • MAVEBA, December 2009 (Italy) • eaSDS, December 2009 (Germany)

• And 5 more in the next few months…(see our new web page for details :- )

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Michael Picheny

SynSIG

AVISA SIGdial

SLaTE

TOPICS

Yoshinori Sagisaka

Chinese SLP

SaLTMILSIG-IL

SIG-ILSP

AFCP

AISV

SIGRU

LANGUAGES

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Representative SIG Activities:• Annual meetings - regularly by several SIGs • International Conferences

– INTERSPEECH 2011 co-organized by AISV,

– INTERSPEECH 2013 co-organized by AFCP

• Workshops - e.g., AVSP 2010 (AVISA), Oriental –COSCODA (SIG-CSLP), PROPOR 2010 (SIG-IL) SIGDIAL (in conjunction with Interspeech 2010), Second Language Studies (Sept 2010), , Odyssey (SPLC, 2010), SSW7 (SYNSIG, Sept. 2010), Speech Prosody 2010 (SPROSIG)

• Young researcher roundtable (SIGDIAL, Sept 2010)• Thesis prizes - AFCP, 2009 and SIG-IL, 2010• Contributions to ISCApad

Thanks to the SIGs for their help in recruiting reviewers!!

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ISCA Distinguished Lecturers Program

• Sending Distinguished Lecturers to different parts of the world when invited by a Regional Subcommittee

• Selection Committee chaired by Sadaoki Furui

• One Distinguished Lecturer Selected Dec 2007 for 2008-2009– Richard M. Stern, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

• Latin America in Aug 2009• India in Dec 2009

• Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2008 for 2009-2010– Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

• Brazil in June 2010

– James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA• Planning the trip to Nepal in Nov 2010

• Two Distinguished Lecturers Selected Dec 2009 for 2010-2011– Li Deng, Microsoft Research at Redmond, USA

• Lecture Trips under planning

– Thierry DUTOIT, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium• Lecture Trips under planning

• Call for Nominations for new DLs by 15 Nov 2010

Sadaoki Furui

Yoshinori Sagisaka

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Industry Liaison

• Established set of 20 Industry affiliates to ISCA– Listed on ISCA website by logo with short descriptions– Yearly ISCA-Industry Roundtable with affiliates

• September 2009 at INTERSPEECH In Brighton

• September 2010 at INTERSPEECH in Makuhari

– Monthly ISCApad affiliate research focus

• Leverages student resume service (in conjunction with SAC and Education Coordinator) to help match students with jobs, as well as ISCA webpage “JOBS“ section

Michael Picheny

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Liaison with other organizations

• Liaison with organizations in speech and language– ACL, ACLCLP, AFCP, AISV, ASJ and ASSTA– Encouragement of joint activities– Representation in NAACL&HLT

Yoshinori Sagisaka

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Journals

• ISCA has two journals: SPECOM and CSL (SPECOM is a shared journal with EURASIP)

• Have decided to revive yearly paper awards, merge award processes across journals and coordinate with EURASIP

• Even years (2010, 2012...) ISCA will solely present paper awards

• Odd years (2011, 2013) ISCA and EURASIP will collaborate on SPECOM, and ISCA will solely present awards for CSL

Michael Picheny

Jean-Francois Bonastre

Yoshinori Sagisaka

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Upcoming INTERSPEECH Conferences

INTERSPEECH 2011: Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011

INTERSPEECH 2012: Portland, Oregon, USA, September 09-13, 2012

INTERSPEECH 2013: Lyon, France, August 25-29, 2013

Call for proposals and guidelines for Interspeech-2014 (Nov. 1st. 2010 deadline)

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Call for volunteer reviewers

DouglasO‘Shaugnessy

Tanja Schultz

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INTERSPEECH statistics

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Alan W Black

Total expenditure by ISCA: ~20800 € IS10: ~13000 €

Total: ~33800 €

52 Grants

9 events

25 Countries

By Country: (by institution of awardees)

USA 7, UK 5, France 4, India 4, plus others

By Continent:

NA: 8, Europe 23, Africa 1, SA 1, Asia 10, ANZ 5

Including extra support from IS2006 organizers

Grants September 2009-10

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2010: Applications 101, awarded 52, award rate 51%

2009: Applications 63, awarded 52, award rate 83%

2008: Applications 106, awarded 54, award rate 51%

Awardees are:

Students, First time presentation

SAC contributors

ISCA supported event, One grant per Institution

Exceptions sometimes made

Rejections are due to :

Applications from the same group, too many for event (Interspeech)

Please apply early through Online Application Website (yes, it works again!)

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ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement 2010 Recipient: Steve Young

6 new ISCA Fellows

ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Speech Communication Journal 2007-2009

ISCA Award for the best paper published in the Computer and Language Journal 2005-2009

3 ISCA Awards for the Best Student Paper of INTERSPEECH 2010

TBA Thursday at the Interspeech 2010 closing ceremony

Alan W Black

Awards

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Keikichi Hirose

ISCA Fellows, 2010

Chair: Sadaoki Furui

9 nominations

6 awarded

Alex ACERO

Janet BAKER

John HANSEN

Lin-Shan LEE

Nelson MORGAN

Philip WOODLAND

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ISCA Student Advisory Committee Helen Meng

Samer Al MoubayedGeneral Coordinator

KTH, Sweden

Marco A. Piccolino-BonifortiEducational Series Coordinator

University of Cambridge, UK

Antonio RoqueTransition Coordinator

University of Southern California, USA

Sylvie SagetGeneral Coordinator

Telecom Bretagne, LUSSI , France

Sunayana SitaramVolunteers Coordinator

National Institute of Tech. India

Marcel WältermannWeb Coordinator

Deutsche Telekom Labs, TU Berlin, Germany

Catherine LaiVolunteers Coordinator

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Matt SpeedContent and Publicity Coordinator

University of York, United Kingdom

Current Members Members completing their term

Student liaison

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Student liaison

• Migration and complete renewal of the ISCA-SAC website– www.isca-students.org – Now hosted in Singapore – (thanks to Dr. Haizhou Li and Tse Min Lua from InCampus)– State-of-the-Art Content Management Platform (Drupal 6)– New design and extended functionality– Central part: Blog for increased interactivity between ISCA-SAC

and students– Re-implementation of the ISCA Grant Application System– Forum– Ongoing migration of all the functionality of the old website (e.g.,

books, theses, job listings) • Membership drive!

– Visit our social networking sites at Facebook and Twitter!– Meet us at the ISCA booth everyday between 12:00– 14:00!

• Maintenance of Google indexing of ISCA publications

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Student liaison

• YRRSDS'10 (Young Researchers Roundtable at the Spoken Dialog Systems Workshop 2010)– www.yrrsds.org– An annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and

junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry

– YRRSDS'10 kindly hosted by Waseda Unviersity on September 22-23, 2010 

– Sponsors: Orange Labs (awaiting confirmation), Honda Research Institute, Microsoft Research, AT&T, Aldebaran Robotics, Dialonics

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ISCA-SAC Student Panel SessionSpeech Technology in the Next Decade 2010-2020

Visions from Academia and Industry– Objective: Dialog between invited researchers and

students!– Prof. Alan Black: CMU (Carnegie Mellon University)

– Prof. Nick Campbell : Trinity College Dublin– Dr. Ciprian Chelba: Google– Dr. Bowen Zhou: IBM Research

– Organizer: ISCA-SAC– Sponsors: ISCA– Date: Wednesday (Sep 29, 13:30-15:30, Room 301)

All Are Welcome!

ISCA-SAC @ Interspeech 2010

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Student liaison

• Interspeech 2010 Student Reception!– Tuesday 28 September, from 19:15– Venue: MTG (Makuhari Techno Garden) building, a 12-

minute walk northeast and inland from the conference site– Bring your tickets!

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ISCA – Multimedia Educational Material

We plan to create Multimedia educational material from:

1. Keynote speeches and tutorials at ISCA conferences and workshops

2. ISCA Distinguished Lectures

3. Researchers who are willing to provide short courses on selected topics (by invitation at the beginning)

For this purpose: • An ISCA Consent and Release Form was compiled (first time

will be used at Interspeech2010)• Convenient material dissemination practices are under

consideration (formats, server etc.)

Yannis Stylianou

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Treasurer’s Report

• Positive result (income over expenditure) for 2009• Expenditure for the benefit of members

– major overhaul of ISCA website and move to new web hosting service

– continuous and increased grant support

• Solid financial base for continued Interspeech and ITRW seed funding

• Consistent savings thanks to Student Committee initiatives

Bernd MÖBIUS

Highlights

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Income 2008 2009

Membership fees *95,219 43,292

Interspeech donation *73,095 40,520

ITRW shares 1,836 0

Proceedings 0 0

Interest on Savings 3,254 3,422

TOTAL (€) 173,405 87,234

* Two Interspeech conferences: Antwerp (2007) and Brisbane (2008)

Treasurer’s Report

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Expenditure (1) 2008 2009

Salaries *26,615 35,356

Board/Committee meetings **8,727 **6,923

Secretariat 2,583 4,263

Grants & Awards 12,490 18,911

Special Interest Groups 0 0

Website Administration 5,508 6,841

subtotal 55,923 72,294

* Lower because of maternity leave** Includes room rent for committee meetings

Treasurer’s Report

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Expenditure (2) 2008 2009

55,923 72,294

Distinguished Lecturers 4,395 *0

Workshop support 1,000 1,200

Training & Education 0 0

Archive 738 455

Bank Costs 1,189 1,193

TOTAL (€) 63,245 75,142

* To incur in 2010

Treasurer’s Report

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Assets 31/12/2008 31/12/2009

BANK BALANCE 161,244 208,434

RECEIVABLES 39,000 0

TOTAL ASSETS (€)200,244 208,434

Liabilities & Equity

PAYABLES 0 0

EQUITY (€) 200,244 208,434

Each year ISCA gives seed money to 1-2 Interspeech conferences and 1-2 workshops. Assets >€82k are required to maintain a positive cash balance.

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Treasurer’s Report - Conclusion

• ISCA is financially sound• ISCA will continue to provide seed money for

Interspeech conferences and ITRW workshops:– assets sufficient to support 1-2 Interspeech conferences and

workshops at any time– reserves enable ISCA to reduce financial risks to conference

organizers, which potentially reduces registration fees

• ISCA is strengthening its support for grants, international actions and groups, and new initiatives.

• New ideas are most welcome!

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Approval of Reports

Report– President– Treasurer

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Changes to the ISCA Statutes A4.1

Statute A4.1 restricts ISCA Board membership to no more than two members per country. Possible changes to this restriction were discussed at the General Assembly held last year in Brighton, and now the Board is officially proposing increasing the limit to three members per country:

Current: “No more than two members of the Board are permitted from one country”

Proposed: “No more than three members of the Board are permitted from one country”

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Changes to the ISCA Statutes A5.1

Statute A5.1 specifies the frequency of General Assembly meetings to once every two years. In practice, the General Assembly now meets at each Interspeech Conference and therefore the Board proposes the following change:

Current: “The General Assembly meets every two years”

Proposed: “The General Assembly meets at least every two years”

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Goals for 2010-11

• To enhance ISCA’s world position– To promote high standards in ISCA’s conferences and workshops

• To expand ISCA’s international aspects– To support student-centered activities– Regional sub-committees– Remote access to lectures (DL program)– Improve the representation of underrepresented countries/regions

in the membership

• To enhance the ISCA community– To raise the impact factor of ISCA members’ publications– To expand the ISCA video archive and virtual conferencing– To understand members’ needs better and increase community

involvement– To stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration in new areas of research– To improve current ISCA web-based services and create new ones

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Comments, Suggestions and Questions from ISCA Members

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INTERSPEECH 2011

Florence, Italy, August 27-31, 2011

Next ISCA General Assembly

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Any Other Business?

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Changes to the ISCA Statute A4.1

Alternatives considered:A. Keep current restriction (max 2 per country)B. Increase limit to max 3 per countryC. Include regional restrictions

• max 3-6 per region• Regions: Europe +Africa, America, Asia+Oceania

D. Make restrictions proportional to membership representation• need a concrete proposal for this, but it will be logistically very difficult

E. Remove restriction

Problem:• None of the above options encourages diversity in field

The Board unanimously decided for option B:• In view of extension to 14 members• Goal: getting both regional and scientific variation• This was presented to the General Assembly in 2009, but needs to be approved now,

in time for the next Board elections in April-May 2011