The Graphical Web Conference -- its Future

This is a planning session for those interested in helping to be involved in the future of this conference. Our community of practitioners of the arts and sciences of web graphics has an interesting history and, we might hope, an interesting future.

This session will consist of three parts:

• a brief overview of the issues involved in offering annual conferences;
• structured brainstorming;
• and the development of a list of “action items” to begin the plans for next year’s conference.

To run a conference, one needs a topic: a reason to get together.
One needs a community devoted enough to the topic to actually assemble.
We need

• a venue (periodic or aperiodic)
• web hosting services
• conference and peer-review software
• sponsors
• bank accounts
• facility to plan, including the possibility of
• governance agreements
• organizational status.
• other

Most significantly one needs the energy of volunteers who are willing to take on the responsibilities for shepherding all these things into the future. This session will seek to bring together a range of suggestions on these topics and, if successful, will result in the establishment of a planning committee willing to begin work now on defining the future of the conference.