Type Theory Forall #23 What is the SIGPLAN? - Jens Palsberg and Jonathan Aldrich
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Sep 24, 2022 Jonathan Aldrich, CMU professor and ACM publications board member, and Jens Palsberg, UCLA professor and former SIGPLAN chair, discuss how SIGPLAN runs conferences, publications, and community programs. They talk about conference organization, hybrid meetings, open access publishing, reviewing practices, diversity and mentoring, budgets and travel support, and how volunteers shape the field.
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Leverage Online Reviewing For Fairer Decisions
- Use online PC discussions to allow reviewers time to argue, cite examples, and converge on fair decisions.
- Invite external experts into online reviews to bring necessary expertise into deliberations.
Major SIGPLAN Papers Are Gold Open Access
- SIGPLAN's main conferences are gold open access and ACM plans to open the entire digital library by 2025.
- Gold open access ensures unrestricted free access to the version of record.
ACM Open Reverses The Library Financial Model
- ACM Open shifts the financial model from 'subscribe to read' to 'subscribe to publish', letting authors at subscribing institutions publish OA without fees.
- Libraries' subscriptions cover author fees under this model.