SIGCHI financial report

To help in understanding what SIGCHI spends money on, I ' l l give you a quick overview of the organization. S IGCHI is most ly run by volunteers. The three areas where volunteers are heavily used are: the S IGCHI Executive Committee, which consists o f elected and appointed members who oversee all of the activities o f S IGCHI; the Conference Management Commit tee, headed by an elected executive committee member, who oversees the conferences sponsored by SIGCHI; and of course, the CHI conference volunteers. We have an A C M liaison, our program director, who works with both the Executive Commit tee and the Conference Management Committee. In recent years, w e ' v e also hired a conference manager to handle conference logistics, a conference process advisor to train and work with conference volunteers, and a web site development company to update our web site. We took these steps to preserve the quality of our conferences and web presence given increasingly limited volunteer time.