IOI Regulations - Explications

E1 Preamble

E1.1

1. All statements which are placed in the Statutes, the Explications and the Appendices, as well as the statements in the Organizing Rules which are drawn up by the Host of IOI'n, are meant to regulate the formal communication between the participants. When the Regulations do not give explicit guidance, the participants are asked to act in the general spirit of the Regulations.
2. But the Regulations are also meant to be more than just procedures. The other purpose is that the IOI Regulations give:
   • new participating and observing Countries a quick overall idea of what the IOI is and how it works;
   • information about what steps should be made to become a Host and to organize an IOI in a certain year.

E1.4

E1.5

E2 Definitions

E2.1

E2.5

Each Country has the right to be invited as an Observer.

If a Host Country wants to invite more or fewer then four Contestants, it's advisable to announce this in the General Assembly beforehand.

E2.7

E3 Objectives and Means

E3.3

E3.4

E3.5

E4 Office Bearers and Tasks

E4.1

The IC should include Countries that represent all geographical regions of the world. It should be encouraged that all IC members actively participate in the IC and that there are no vacant positions in the IC.

E4.2

E4.4

In the process of organizing IOIs since 1989 all kind of materials about past IOIs are collected. This material forms the basis of the IS.

E4.5

The BP can promote the IOI, can provide advice to the IOI, and can act as intermediaries between the IOI and others who can support the development of the IOI (e.g. with extending the scope of the IOI, with organizing the IOI in specific countries, with providing some financial support).

E4.6

The IOI Regulations can not and will not prescribe in which way the Host Team of IOI'n is composed and its tasks are performed by the members.

But in order to prepare IOI'n statements S4.6 and S4.7 require that the Host Team includes as a member:

• the person who holds the position of the Manager of IOI'n (the Chair of the Host Team);
• the person who holds the position of the Secretary-General of the IOI (the Chair of the IC) after the Closing Ceremony of IOI'n;
• the person who holds the position of the President of the GA (the Chair of the GA) of IOI'n;
• the person who holds the position of the Chair of the SC of IOI'n.

• the President of the GA should be skilled to conduct the GA, which is a large meeting, with lots of obstacles, in a language which is not the mother tongue of most Host participants;
• the Manager of IOI'n should have the authority on the national level to achieve the task of the Host;
• the Secretary-General of the IOI should have the authority on the international level to achieve the task of the IC;
• the Chair of the SC should have the skills to develop Competition Tasks according to the current scientific state of the informatics discipline.

If several positions are combined in one person, by default of that person, each position is taken up as indicated for that position in the Statutes.

It is not recommended that the organizing Host reduces the Host Team to one person.

E4.8

Problems which need to be specified in a more 'permanent' Judging Procedure are such as (for example):

• the interests of participating Countries to have as much points for their Contestants as possible and the conflicting interest of the SC to have a good distribution of points over the Contestants;
• the rules to avert the possibility that a too large fraction of the Contestants are proposed for the same medal, leading to a lot of organizing problems and extra costs for the Present Host.

E5 Host Nomination and Selection

E5.4

E6 Responsibilities and Organizing Rules of Present Host

E6.4

It is not necessary to make an English version of the Guidelines, although parts, such as Competition Procedures and Judging Procedures, should be in English.

E6.5