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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">The GDCC Wants You!</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">The Graph Drawing Contest with its first occurrence 1994 is about as old as the Graph Drawing & Network Visualization conference itself. It has run annually
since, to promote new creative designs to show graph-based data and research into algorithms engineering for drawing graphs, but also as a social activity at the conference itself to engage with manually solving challenging instances. See
<a href="http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/">http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/</a> for more information and a history of the contest.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">The contest committee is looking for new members to bolster its ranks for the coming years. In the current setup, this involves the following activities:</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Creative topics<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Select a topic every year, by finding interesting, real, graph-based datasets to be visualized.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Prepare the datasets for distribution<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Evaluate submissions before the conference<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Live challenge<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Select a topic every other year, by defining a (usually known, hard) optimization problem regarding graph drawing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Prepare the contest instances, manual solving tool, submission server<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Enjoy teams struggling to find the perfect solution to that one instance<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">General<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Promote the graph drawing contest, maintain the website, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Announce winners at the conference banquet<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Think about how the contest may evolve in the future<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">The ideal* candidate contributes to all these activities, takes initiatives for new ideas and topics, always attends the conference, and can serve on the
committee for approximately four years. *of course, no one is perfect!</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">If you are interested in helping us run this tradition at our conference, please send us an email at
<a href="mailto:gdnvcontest@gmail.com">gdnvcontest@gmail.com</a> with a brief motivation. </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Deadline for applications is October 5th.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">We are looking forward to your application!</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">Best regards,</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">The GD contest committee</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">- Philipp Kindermann</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">- Fabian Klute</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">- Tamara Mchedlidze</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:#0C00">- Wouter Meulemans</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:#0C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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