<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">(via Benjamin C. Pierce / Dave Farber)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><font color="#0056d6"><b><br></b></font><b style="color:rgb(0,86,214)">[TL;DR: Please help circulate a new guide for organizers of virtual conferences.]</b><br><div class="gmail_default"></div><br>Dear colleagues,<br><br>The Association for Computing Machin<span class="gmail_default"></span>ery 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. <br><br>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, organizational strategies, and technology platforms for successful virtual meetings.<br><br>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.<br><br>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)? <br><br>Many thanks!<br><br>     Benjamin Pierce<br>     Task force executive editor<br><br>…on behalf of the entire task force:<br><br><a href="https://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University of California, Irvine, USA (Task Force Co-chair)</span><br><a href="https://people.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Clarkson University, USA (Task Force Co-chair, member of ACM Council, Former SGB Chair)</span><br><a href="https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br><br><a href="https://blairmacintyre.me/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;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;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Georgia Tech, USA (Chaired IEEE VR 2020)</span><br><a href="https://garymolson.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underli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