Do you want to organize a workshop
and have it supported by SIGPLAN?
SIGPLAN encourages and supports workshops in areas related to all fields
of programming languages. A workshop organizer can either request "incooperation"
status or "sponsorship" status with SIGPLAN. When SIGPLAN sponsors a meeting,
it takes responsibility for the meeting and the site selection, including
financial responsibility, whereas SIGPLAN does not take financial responsibility
and requires that there be another sponsor which will take financial responsibility
for incooperation meetings. SIGPLAN requires a close working relationship
with the organizers of a SIGPLAN-sponsored meeting. This means that critical
decisions have to be approved by the SIGPLAN Executive Committee, such as
the selection of the program chair, the selection of program committee members
and the budget. SIGPLAN expects all of its sponsored conferences to break
even financially. Please see the sponsorship and incooperation documents
for benefits of SIGPLAN sponsorship and incooperation. In comparison to a
conference, a workshop is a technical meeting that
- reports work in progress,
- has a narrow focus,
- has sessions that enable interaction among workshop attendees, and
- is fairly low cost.
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Important email addresses:
SIGPLAN Chair: chair_sigplan@acm.org
SIGPLAN Vice Chair: vc_sigplan@acm.org
SIGPLAN Notices editors:
Mark Bailey
ACM director for SIGPLAN: Ginger Ignatoff
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SIGPLAN especially encourages
workshops that co-locate with SIGPLAN sponsored conferences. One advantage
of co-location is that the budgeting process is fairly simple. A one page
budget is all that is required, which can be handled using email. To apply
for sponsorship of a workshop, please send (e-mail addresses given below)
the following information to the SIGPLAN Chair and Vice Chair:
- Name, place and dates of workshop.
- The goals of the workshop.
- Names and addresses of organizers.
- Names of potential participants, such as program committee members.
- Plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers).
- Expected number of attendees.
- Plans for publicity.
- Plans for a proceedings.
- Description of past versions of the workshop including date, organizers,
paper submission/acceptance counts, attendance, site, registration fees and
summary budget information.
- URL address of the workshop description.
The request should be sent to the SIGPLAN
Vice Chair.
After receiving the request, the SIGPLAN Executive Committee will decide
whether or not to move ahead with the request for sponsorship/incooperation
of the workshop. Final approval comes from ACM after the approval of a submitted
budget. A final report about the workshop is required, which is suitable
for publication in SIGPLAN Notices.
Workshop organizers should review SIGPLAN's
Guidelines for the General Chairs
and Guidelines for the Program Chairs which
also apply to workshop organizers.
Publication
A SIGPLAN-sponsored workshop may or may not have an official
proceedings, either in physical or electronic form, or both.
If it does, the proceedings must be made available in
digital form for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library,
regardless of how else it is published.
If the proceedings are also published on paper, the
preferred route is to produce the proceedings as an ACM
publication, although alternative publishers are
occasionally acceptable, usually for historical reasons.
SIGPLAN Notices may, if you wish, consider publishing short
abstracts of the papers presented at your meeting. This
option requires advance negotiation with the SIGPLAN Notices
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