1. VLSI-SoC 2005

Adam Osseiran, from the Edith Cowan University, presented a detailed report on the organization of VLSI-SoC 2005, to be held in Perth, Australia, from October 17^th to 19^th 2005. Adam Osseiran is the new general chair of the conference, since K.Eshraghian retired from the university. He made a presentation of both the conference organization and of the city of Perth. Call for papers have been distributed both electronically and in printed form, in major conferences. Local proceedings will be distributed to the participants and will hold the IFIP ISBN. Best papers will be selected for a book to be published by Kluwer. Proposals for special sessions are welcome.

2. VLSI-SoC 2006 and 2007

R.Reis, the chair of the VLSI-SoC conference steering committee, made a brief report on the organization of the 2006 and 2007 editions of the conference.

The 2006 edition will be held in Cannes, France, with local organization of the TIMA Laboratory (Grenoble). Bernard Courtois will be the general chair. Giovanni De Michelli accepted to act as program co-chair. R.Reis will send additional information to the WG.

The 2007 edition will be held in Atlanta, USA, with local organization of the Georgia Tech. Vincent Mooney will be the general chair.

3. CHARME 2005

Tom in der Rieden, from the University of Saarbrücken, presented a detailed report on the organization of CHARME 2005, to be held in Saarbrücken, Germany, from October 3^rd to 6^th 2005. Wolfgang Paul will be the general chair, Dominique Borrione will act as program chair, and Tom in der Rieden will be the local arrangements chair. He also made a presentation of the city of Saarbrücken. Springer will be the publisher of the proceedings. Since Springer is now also the IFIP publisher, the proceedings could follow the regular contract between Springer and IFIP.

4. EduTech 2005

Carlos Delgado-Kloos gave a report on the EduTech workshop, held in Toulouse during the current IFIP World Computer Congress. The workshop has 4 regular sessions, 3 invited talks and 3 panels and attracted a very interested audience. It has been proposed that the next edition of the workshop could be held together with VLSI-SoC 2005 in Perth.

5. TC 10 joint conference

Franz Rammig, the TC 10 chair, reported on the idea of organizing a joint TC 10 conference during the next IFIP World Computer Congress, to be held in Santiago de Chile in 2006. This conference would celebrate the 30^th anniversary of TC 10 and its subject would gather all active Working Groups of TC 10. Franz Rammig proposed the subject of "swarm intelligence" (or "collaborative computing"). Each Working Group should nominate interested people to participate in the conference steering committee and in the program committee.

6. SIG-ES

Franz Rammig reported on discussions held during the SIG-ES meeting, held one day before this WG meeting, regarding the idea of transforming SIG-ES into a new Working Group under TC 10. SIG-ES is not yet taking concrete steps towards this proposal and shall discuss the subject again in the future.

7. Next meeting

Next meeting will be held in Munich, Germany, together with the DATE conference in March 2005.