Eurosys 2013 Shadow PC

We are running the Eurosys Shadow PC again this year.

This represents an excellent Opportunity for young systems researchers 
(PhD students) to get experience in community service - 
i.e. Programme Committee Practices.

Process
We expect to get around 100-200 papers forwarded from the PC for shadow work.

We propose (as with last time) that shadow PC papers will receive
1 light and 1 heavy review in first round, 
then the shadow PC chairs will select papers above the bar for 
2 more heavy reviews.

With 30 people on the shadow cttee 
we could expect around 20 papers each to look at, 
of which about 8 are light reviews.
There may be shadow-light PC members (only get light reviewers or few
heavy reviews, and don't have to attend shadow PC f2f meeting) and
shadow-heavy PC members (mix of reviews, plus prefer they attend f2f
meet).

The timescales will track the main PCs' so  paper asignment and 2nd
phase reviews, and final meeting, roughly in line with the important dates
http://eurosys2013.tudos.org/

We will have a face-to-face meeting in Cambridge 
to try to select a shadow programme - only heavy-shadow-PC members 
need attend. 

We do expect EU people to attend the f2f meeting, 
but this is optional for people outside the EU.

We plan the shadow PC to be very close to the main PC meeting, 
so the week of January 7-11, 2013, and in the same place 
(the Computer Lab in Cambridge, England, see
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/directions/

See How to read a paper, by Keshav:
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf

See code of practice for PCs from SIGSOFT for useful advice.
http://www.sigsoft.org/about/policies/pc-policy.htm


Please respond (or ask your students to respond) 
or send any queries to
Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk
by October 20th.

We shall shortly after this, start the paper asignment process
roughly in synch with the main PC.

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