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From: beach@arisia.Xerox.COM (Rick Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Thanks Net Folk
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Date: 25 Nov 88 19:40:11 GMT
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Brian Corrie at University of Victoria asked why some of the SIGGRAPH course
notes aren't made available more easily.

The simple answer is that SIGGRAPH chooses not to publish these notes each year.
We do reproduce sifficient quantities for the course attendees and conference
attendees who order extra copies.  The logistics of printing and inventorying
these notes are very considerable and the expense is in excess of $200,000.
Additional logistics and expense for publishing course notes after the
conference are presently judged to be not worth the value to SIGGRAPH.

However, SIGGRAPH is sensitive to the desire to use these notes after the
conference.  We do distribute full sets of course notes to educational
institutions and conference attendees who prepay for the full set.
You should encourage your institution or library to acquire such a set.
There is an educational discount; see the Computer Graphics newsletter
for details.

Furthermore, some of the SIGGRAPH course notes are being published by
traditional publishers.  Course organizers are free to make arrangements
on their own and SIGGRAPH works with ACM Press to consider selected course
each year.  ACM Press will publish a couple of SIGGRAPH'87 course notes
and is reviewing some from SIGGRAPH'88.

Cheers
Richard J. Beach
SIGGRAPH Editor-in-Chief
Graphics area editor, ACM Press