This time line has been put together from experiece over several ISSRE confrences. It should be useful to the organizing committees as the plan and execute the conference.

Time line.. beginning at the N-1 the ISSRE Conference

• November N-1  ISSRE Conference is Held
• ISSRE Conference N-1
• Call for Papers of N
• Note that papers should be submitted in camera ready format in pdf.
• ISSRE Organizing Committee N, meeting
• ISSRE Program Committee N, meeting
• Begin Industry support solicitation.
• Get START program going before PC selection.
• Capture the skill definition and matching
• December N-1
• Website
• Detailed CFP with the dates for submission
• Complete Hotel details if possible.
• Collect mailing lists from sources: IEEE, Michael, LAAS etc.
• Submit CFP ad in IEEE Software or IEEE Software to appear in Feburary.
• Schedule PC meeting, location and dates.. Use the face to face meeting at the N-1 conference to iron out preferences, etc.
• Consideration:  example Washington DC has worked well for 3 years in a row (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). ?????
• January
• TMRF should be complete
• Begin monthly conference call on status - clarify role and responsibilites,
• Assess status
• Check with IEEE to ensure publication of ad in Feb issue
• Ensure that the electronic submissions system is working - and google can find it.
• Feburary
• Ensure that IEEE lists the conference.. and this will not happen if the TMRF is incomplete - so get that done in Jan
• Reminders to all earlier authors - individually sent.
• March
• April
• Monitor submissions and move dates if necessary, but not more than once.   If one needs to extend the dates - provide advance notice of change, and promptly reflect changes in the web pages.
• Usually April 20^th is the end of submissions for full papers. 
• Begin the referee bid process - and START helps do that.
• Clear directions to referees on due dates and the referee process
• May
• Nag, nag, nag the referees for the reports.
• Solicit submissions for Industrial Practices and Tutorials.
• June
• Minimum of three refereee reports should be in by the June 1^st.
• June 1^st is deadline for the submision of Industry Practices and Tutorials
• Form the review process for the Industry Practices sub-committee.
• When there is clear shortage of referees or huge discrepencies on the results, additional reviews are to be solicited from dependable committee members.
• June 2^nd week is the typical date for the Program Committee Meeting. And this occurs before the DSN conference.
• Collect additional reviews that were additionally provided during the PC meetings.
• Generate the first draft of the papers and sessions right after the PC meeting.
• Publish on the website - all confirmed papers (excluding sheparded papers) immediately and mark as Preliminary.
• Communicate results:  Tutorials.
• Create FA sub-committee at the PC meeting
• Create the IP sub-committee at the PC meeting
• Create the Student paper sub-committee PC meeting
• July
• July 1^st (roughly two weeks after the PC meeting) send the accept/rejects to the authors.
• On line registration opens,
• Customization of the letters to authors - such as sheparding needs to be launched and a followup set up with the PC member.
• Suggested switching of papers between tracks - such as paper to fastabstract, etc. needs to be done.
• Clear directions from the authors point of view of what to do with a paper?
• Send to IEEE the list of accepted authors, and notify the authors that they will get print and submit directions from IEEE.
• Inform authors that registration is required before final submit date for papers to be printed in the proceedings.
• Check with shepards on the commit date for changes recommended by the PC.
• End of July - Communicate results for Industrial Practices papers.
• August
• Check on the schedule for the final submissions of papers to IEEE and communicated to authors.
• FastAbstract deadline?
• September
• Complete the FA final submissions
• October
• Preregistration closes October 3^rd week
• Print supplimental proceeding - talk to Mladen Vouk about the ins and outs of this process.. it is only a 15 minute phone call and will save you 15 days.
• Cancel under subscribed tutorials.    
• November
• 2^nd or 3^rd week Conference N
• December

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