Summary of Proposed Bylaws Changes 2011 1. Following a suggestion of Dave Forney, various Articles of the Bylaws describing Awards have been gathered into a single Article entitled "Awards". The awards are described as Sections of this Article. This change achieves consistency with the manner in which Standing Committees are described in the Bylaws. Some of the references to former Articles needed to be changed to point to Sections of the new Awards Article. 2. Added responsibility of contributing members to serve on the ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award Selection Committee to Awards Committee description. 3. Removed responsibility for external award nominations from Awards Committee (this reponsibility now moves to a new "external nominations committee") 4. In the description of the Membership and Chapters Committee, changed "group" to Society. 5. Changed the membership of the Fellows Committee from 5 members to 7 members, changed the staffing requirement from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st (with Chair appointed by Oct. 1st), and noted that members typically serve three years with staggered terms. 6. Added the Online Committee as a Standing Committee, with President and 1st VP ex officio. 7. Added the Student Committee as a Standing Committee, with 2nd VP ex officio. 8. Created an External Nominations Committee with President ex officio, and moved responsibility for generating external award nominations away from the Awards Committee to this committee. 9. Noted that external nominations are possible for C. E. Shannon Award with deadline of March 1st. Noted that the committee may consider all possible candidates (not just those nominated). 10. Changed external nomination deadline for A. D. Wyner award to March 1st. Noted that the committee may consider all possible candidates (not just those nominated). 11. Changed "the best" to "an outstanding" in the description of the Chapter of the Year Award. 12. Updated the Joint award deadline to February 15th for consistency with ComSoc, and noted that ITSoc members of subcommittee are drawn from Awards Committee.