SIG Basic Guidelines

• Any Member or Member(s) may choose to initiate a SIG.
• The Association will not own any of the projects or data which result from the SIG, however, the association reserves the right to publish the general findings with full credit to the SIG members.
• A SIG is empowered to use the LISA name to help it progress its project.
• Each SIG is at liberty to disclose or not disclose its detailed findings to the General Assembly, however, the SIG is nonetheless responsible to provide the association director with a reasonable overview of its activities and updates.
• A SIG may sell its project results either to other members as well as to the general marketplace. The SIG is obliged however, to give preferential treatment to association members under guidelines established by the SIG and the director.
• The association director is at all times bound by the same confidentiality agreement which binds the respective SIG members. SIG Operation Details

The procedure to form a SIG is as follows:

1. Any Association Member may forward to the Director or to the Executive Committee a SIG proposal which will contain the following:
   • a general project outline
   • a list of project objectives
   • an estimate project's duration
   • an estimate of the cost of the project
2. The Director distributes the project synopsis to the entire General Assembly via electronic means.
3. Within one month of the release date of the synopsis, each member interested in participating in the project should register that interest with the originator of the project, copy to the Director, who will be responsible to keep the Executive Committee informed of its' status.
4. SIGs should be comprised of no more that six members unless the project is of a scope to require more. It is the responsibility of the members of the SIG to determine who should participate.
5. The initiator of a SIG should serve as Project Manager and coordinator unless otherwise decided by the SIG.
6. If there is no response to a SIG proposal within one month, the Director will put the project on hold for future release.
7. If, following a second release, within six months after the first, there is still no response to the project, the SIG will be dropped.
8. It is the responsibility of the SIG to determine how the project will be funded.
9. Each SIG may determine if it chooses to update the Association of its progress during any of the General Assembly meetings. The Director will be responsible to coordinate the presentation and schedule it into the meeting agenda.
10. Results of SIGs will be maintained in the Association's library.