IOI International Committee: Meeting 1996-07-27 Present Sweden (host 1994) Netherlands (host 1995) Hungary (host 1996) South Africa (host 1997) Portugal (host 1998) Turkey (host 1999) Mr Kimn (elected member) Prof D Piele (elected member) P. Waker (IFIP TC3) Agenda 1. Reports from South Africa, Portugal and Turkey. 2. New languages. (Visual BASIC, Java, Delphi). 3. Political issues. 4. Election of new members. 1. REPORTS 1.1. South Africa (IOI '97) *Organisation South African Computer Society, Old Mutual, UCT. *Accommodation Has been booked at the University of Cape Town. Students 1 per room, 2 bathrooms per 10 students. Adults in Post-graduate residences. *Transport Buses have been booked. *Fundraising About half way. At present no state funds - only private donations. *Computers Two new laboratories will be installed at the University of Cape Town to cater for IOI '97. *Competition days Tuesday 2 and Thursday 4 December. *Guests Invite as many as will come. Tourist opportunity. *Costs Charge per guest will be US$800.00 (or less) per person. *Safety Competition and residences are on the University of Cape Town campus. Transport is in touring buses. 1.2. Portugal (IOI '98) *Organisation Portuguese Computer Society. *Date September 1998 *Accommodation Students in hostels in Estoril. Leaders in nearby town. *Funding Has to be renegotiated as a result of change in the government. *Computers New - designated for distribution to schools afterwards. 1.3. Turkey (IOI '99) *Commitment Official letter of acceptance handed to IC. *Organisation State Scientific Council (State institution not subject to political variations). *Venue Likely to be Istanbul. *Accommodation To be finalised. *Computers To be finalised. *Scientific Committee To be finalised. *Date July or September. 2. NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Committee to report: Tom Verhoef TV Donald Cook DC Representative from Turkey TUR Other future hosts (?) 3. POLITICAL PROBLEMS 3.1. China A problem arose around the use of the names and flags of the People's Republic of China (Mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan). 3.2. Macedonia The Greek delegation submitted a request regarding the use of the name and flag of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. 3.3. Middle East A request was received that students from Arab states and students from Israel should be on separate floors. IOI International Committee: Meeting 1996-07-30 Present: Sweden (host 1994) Netherlands (host 1995) Hungary (host 1996) South Africa (host 1997) Portugal (host 1998) China (host 2000) Thailand (host 2001) Korea (host 2002) Mr P. Waker (IOI TC3) Agenda: 1. Reports from future hosts : China, Thailand, Korea 2. New languages 3. Development teams 4. IOI Secretariat 5. Board of Patrons 6. General hints 7. Election of new members 1. REPORTS 1.1. China (IOI 2000) * Organisation Government Department of Technology and Science. Chinese Computer Federation (independent of government). * Venue Beijing. * Accommodation Living quarters near contest site. Prepared for 80 teams. * Date End of September * Experience As host for 2000, China has a seat on the IC from 1997 onwards and could attend planning meetings in South Africa and Portugal. 1.2. Thailand (IOI 2001) * Organisation Ministry of Education Ministry of Science Ministry of University Affairs. (IOI seen as creating awareness). * Commitment Letter from Ministry of Education tabled. 1.3. Korea (IOI 2002) * Organisation National Committee for Olympiads in Sciences. (Reports to Ministries of Education, Science and Commerce). * Venue Seoul (too big?) or Tejan (?) (160km from Seoul) * Date End of August 2. NEW LANGUAGES Visual Basic, Java etc. Discussion to continue at the IC meeting in South Africa. LANG COMMITTEE 3. DEVELOPMENT TEAMS South Africa raised the possibility of inviting development teams to the IOI '97. Aim To provide meaningful participation for national teams that cannot (at this stage) cope with the high level of the current competition. With the encouragement of participation, such countries should develop to take part in the full-fledged IOI. The following comments were noted: * splitting resources by running two parallel competitions is unwise * rather have a separate regional competition separate from IOI. * rather have one competition, but set one or two easy problems. The matter is to be discussed in more detail at the IC meeting in South Africa. ZA 4. IOI SECRETARIAT (TOM VERHOEF) * Web site functions well * IOI '93 report has been corrupted. * IOI property : Correspondence etc. - send to Tom * IOI minutes: Send to Tom * IOI history : Send to Tom ALL 5. BOARD OF PATRONS Les Ballardy reports that he did not have time to do much about the board. He suggested we approach Compaque, Microsoft, 3Com. NETH 6. GENERAL HINTS 6.1. Names of Countries Follow other authorities such as the Olympic Games, the UN etc. ZA 6.2. Visas Let delegations teams know the procedure. Delegations should apply early Delegations should report complications. ZA 7. NEW MEMBERS Prof. Stanislav Waligorski (Poland) Prof. Donald Piele (USA) Mr Mohammed Ghodsi (Iran) Problem Each of these members has been elected for three years, but a new member should be elected every year! ALL