The VEE steering committee (SC) will be comprised of past general and program chairs and a USENIX representative, assuming USENIX continues to co-sponsor the event.

At the conclusion of each VEE conference (expected to be yearly), membership on the steering committee will be updated as follows:

(Additions) The general and program chair of the most recent VEE conference will be invited to join the SC, if they are not already members.

(Deletions) When the conference has been held for a number of years, members will be removed from the committee based on the date of the last time they were general or program chair of VEE. 

In the initial years of the conference, SC members that have not attended the last two conferences or served on the PC may be dropped from the SC by the decision of the SC at its annual meeting, held in conjunction with the conference.  This action can be taken to get the SC at or below its size of 12 members in Aug 2005.

As long as USENIX remains a sponsor of VEE, there will remain a USENIX representative on the SC.  This is an exception to the rules above for rotating people off the committee.

The chair of the steering committee is determined by a majority vote of the steering committee members after each conference.  In most years, we expect a new chair to be elect annually.  The previous General Chair (or some other well-defined SC member) becomes SC Chair until a new SC Chair is elected.