Dear ICSE 2001 PC Members:

Thanks to all of you have gotten your reviewing done on time!  
We expect the rest of the reviews to be completed shortly.  (Note that a
few reviewers who appear on the summary progress list are on the Case 
Studies Committee, not the Technical Papers Committee.  Thus, we're 
missing reviews from only a few of you.)  Also, we noticed that some of
the reviews are not marked as final.  We need the final reviews before
we can proceed with much of the preparation for the PC meeting.  
     
We want to update you on the activities, tasks, etc. that will occur
between now and the PC meeting for which we need your feedback, help, etc.

1.  After all reviews have been submitted: 

    a.  We will give you access to the reviews for those papers for which 
        you are a reviewer.  This will give you the opportunity to discuss 
        the paper with the other reviewers, get more information, etc.  
        However, we will defer decisions on the papers until the PC 
        meeting.  After we open the reviews, you won't be able to make
        changes to them until after the PC meeting.

    b.  We will also alert you to papers that have significantly different
        overall scores so that you will pay special attention to them in
        your discussions and additional consideration.

    c.  We may seek additional reviews of some papers --- e.g., papers that
        are controversial, papers for which no expert review was given ---
        before the PC meeting.

    d.  By the end of this week, we will send you a list of those papers
        we plan to discuss at the meeting and the algorithm we used to 
        select them.      

2.  The PC meeting: 

    a.  Is planned for 8:30 am to 6:00 pm on November 11-12	
        (Sat-Sun).  As our previous messages have indicated, please 
        don't plan to leave the meeting until 6:00 pm on Sunday.  
 
    b.  In a previous message, we asked those with special dietary needs to 
        let us know.  If you have dietary restrictions and have not let us 
        know, please do so immediately, we will be finalizing plans for the 
        meeting this week.

    c.  We're planning a dinner on Saturday night for the PC.  If you know
        that you won't be attending the dinner, please let us know.  We need 
        to finalize plans for this dinner soon.


Please let us know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for
the remainder of the process.  Thanks again for all your hard work.
We look forward to seeing you in San Diego.

   Mary Jean and Wilhelm