The Speakers' Bureau has slightly updated its procedures at the
    beginning of its term (Fall 2003), as outlined in the following 
    minutes of the first SB meeting:


According to the SB original chart:
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  -D0 speakers are selected based on the following criteria: 
    Depth of contribution to topic. 
    Need for talk for promotion/job hunting 
    Desire to talk/ previous talk history 
    Institutional distribution 
    Deservedness (history of hard work) 
    Recommendation of appropriate physics convenors or hardware/software
    advisors 
        The above criteria are not in order of importance.  
        Not more than one talk per calendar year is arranged by the SB.

Comments/addendum:
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In practice, due to the larger and more international collaboration, the
SB estimates that the talk frequency will be closer to one talk every 2
years. In any case, the SB will refrain from  assigning more than one
physics talk every two years at highly  visible conferences, since they
are the ones most in demand.

Talks will be assigned only to D0 authors (except for APS or equivalent)

Detector talks, or talks at workshops without proceedings will
not count as a full D0 talk. For instance one could get 1 detector talk
and 1 physics talk the same year.

What is a D0 talk?:
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Standard D0 talk:        a talk assigned by the SB (about D0, or more)

Non-Standard D0 talk:    Direct Invitation, D0 or D0-CDF results
                         Plenaries on a specific theme (like SUSY)
                         with a significant amount of tevatron results

What is a non-D0 talk?
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A talk  not assigned by the SB, where  D0-CDF results are shown in a
small fraction of the talk (typically <25%).

The D0 members are kindly asked to communicate to the SB all the
conference/workshop talks in which D0 results appear (even for non-D0
talks), and provide copies of slides/procs to be linked to the DB.

Assignment of talks:
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The assignments are generally discussed for a group of conferences
simultaneously (for instance  winter conferences) during the SB meetings.
An initial list is generally  proposed by mail before the meeting, based
on the recommendations received by all working groups and IB members (the
SB will ask for recommendation updates every 6 months or so).
The list is discussed, modified and finalized, if possible during the
meeting. Speakers are invited within a week and are asked to respond
within 72h. Speakers who have accepted appear on the SB web page, which is
updated regularly. The SB aims at assigning the talks 2-3 months before
the conference date.

Special case: assignment of talks to Bureau members:
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- The chairman and the spokespersons cannot be nominated by the Bureau.
  (they may accept direct conference invitations after informing the
  SB and receiving a positive answer from the SB).
- The nomination of a Bureau member to a conferences is handled either by
  a restricted Bureau (chair, spokes, physics coordinator) before the
  standard meetings, or discussed via mail w/o copy to the interested
  member.