<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d73ee9da-7fff-0557-c753-b1fcafc37ed1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The reVISe Committee was struck in February 2019 by the VEC (VIS Executive Committee), with the mandate of creating a concrete proposal for re-organizing the academic conferences (VAST, InfoVis, SciVis) under a single umbrella, including paper reviewing and governance. Our intermediate work products including summarized meeting minutes and key findings are available at </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/revise19" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://tinyurl.com/revise19</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We now present the reVISE restructuring proposal in the form of a slideument, at </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/revise19-proposal" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://tinyurl.com/revise19-proposal</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It begins with an executive summary, has a few words about the process, and then has details about our proposed area model, our proposed governance structure and papers review process that aligns with this model, and our proposed revision of the keywords that will support it. We include a transition plan, since these are major changes that cannot happen instantly. The document concludes with an appendix discussing alternatives considered. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The VEC and the three Steering Committees will meet at VIS to discuss and make decisions about this proposal.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All attendees of VIS 2019 are invited to the Town Hall session on Wed Oct 23 from 1-2pm (in Ballroom A of the Vancouver Convention Centre). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best Regards,</span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The reVISe committee: Tamara Munzner (chair), Alex Endert, Alexander Lex, Anders Ynnerman, Christoph Garth, Min Chen, Petra Isenberg, Shixia Liu</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email:  </span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:revise@ieeevis.org" style="text-decoration-line:none">revise@ieeevis.org</a></span></span><br><div><span><br></span></div></div>