<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please see below for a handy guide to virtual conferences from the </font>Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).</div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <br clear="all"></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Stay safe and well, and happy Easter to all who celebrate.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Michael</font><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit" face="arial, sans-serif">__________________</font></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Michael J. Oghia | </font></font></font>Advocacy & Engagement Manager </font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Global Forum for Media Development (<a href="https://gfmd.info" style="" target="_blank">GFMD</a>)<br></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Belgrade, Serbia | </font></font></font><font color="#0000ff" style=""><a href="https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia" target="_blank"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Twitter</font></font></a></font> <font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">|</font></font> <font color="#0000ff" style=""><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></font></font></font><br></font></div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Benjamin C. Pierce</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu">bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:21 PM<br>Subject: [acm-climate] [acm-virtual-conferences-editors] Guide to best practices for virtual conferences<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:acm-climate@googlegroups.com">acm-climate@googlegroups.com</a>><br>Cc:  <<a href="mailto:virtual-conferences@acm.org">virtual-conferences@acm.org</a>><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><font color="#0056d6" face="arial, sans-serif"><b>[TL;DR: Please help circulate a new guide for organizers of virtual conferences.]</b></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">As scientists concerned about climate change, we have often discussed how the world might have to change to get fewer people to fly to conferences. Now we are finding out!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Association for Computing Machinery recently chartered a Presidential Task Force to gather and disseminate guidance on best practices for virtual conferences, aimed at the many conference organizers moving their events online right now. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The task force report, <b><a href="https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences" target="_blank">Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices</a>, </b>is now available on the <a href="https://www.acm.org/virtual-conferences" target="_blank">ACM web site</a>  It offers a comprehensive survey of issues, approaches, organizational strategies, and technology platforms for successful virtual meetings.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We hope that you and your colleagues will find this report useful. If you do, we would love to hear about it! And naturally if you have any suggestions for improvement, we would love to hear those too. (The PDF document linked above includes a pointer to a live Google Doc where you can leave suggestions and comments if you like.) If you have recently organized a virtual conference or are organizing one now, we would especially like to include your experiences (how you organized it, how it went, what people thought, a summary of any post-conference survey results, your advice for future conferences, etc.) and add it (or better yet a pointer to it) to the appendix that we’ve provided for such experience reports.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Finally, can you please help us make sure this guide reaches the people that need it by forwarding this announcement within your networks (especially, of course, to current conference organizers)? </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Many thanks!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">     Benjamin Pierce  (task force executive editor)...</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">…on behalf of the entire task force:</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Crista Videira Lopes</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Irvine, USA (Task Force Co-chair)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://people.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jeanna Matthews</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Clarkson University, USA (Task Force Co-chair, member of ACM Council, Former SGB Chair)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benjamin Pierce</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Task Force Executive Editor, SIGPLAN Vice Chair, chair of SIGPLAN ad hoc </span><a href="https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Climate/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">committee on climate change</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blairmacintyre.me/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Blair MacIntyre</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Georgia Tech, USA (Chaired IEEE VR 2020)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://garymolson.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gary Olson</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Irvine, USA (Former SIGCHI Treasurer; Chair of CSCW Steering Committee, chaired CHI, CSCW, DIS, and many non-ACM conferences)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=4447467" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rob Lindeman</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Canterbury, NZ (Chaired IEEE VR 2010)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~francois/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Francois Guimbretiere</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Cornell University, USA (Chaired UIST 2019)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-srinivasan-keshav" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Srinivasan Keshav</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of Cambridge, UK (Former SIGCOMM Chair)</span></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ex-officio members:</font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://vickihanson.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vicki Hanson</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (ACM CEO, Former ACM President)</span></font></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Pat Ryan (ACM COO)</font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Donna Cappo (ACM Director of SIG Services)</font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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