SIGPLAN Officers Chair: Kathleen Fisher, AT&T New officers SIGPLAN Vice Chair: Chandra Krintz, UCSB July 1st! Open Meeting Past Chair: Jack Davidson, Univ. Virginia Secretary: Eliot Moss, UMass June 17, 2009 Treasurer: Cristina Cifuentes, Sun Australia

Kathleen Fisher Members at large: SIGPLAN Chair Koen DeBosschere, U Ghent. (PAC co-chair) Greg Morrisett, Harvard Steve Zdancewic, UPenn Ben Zorn, Microsoft (PAC co-chair, CACM NC chair)

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Bylaw Changes Direct Member Benefits

Changed EC terms from 2 to 3 years: Reduced registration rates at SIGPLAN conferences Access to SIGPLAN materials in the ACM DL More efficient: EC members felt they had just figured out how to do their jobs Subscription to SIGPLAN Notices (electronic or print) when their terms were up. Annual CD with proceedings of SIGPLAN conferences/Notices Enable more innovation: 3 years long Email newsletter with announcements of SIGPLAN events enough to take on longer-term projects. Eligibility for PAC grants (students, travel companions, int’l) Added another member at large Voting rights in SIGPLAN Elections Eligibility to serve as a SIGPLAN Officer Take on award portfolio

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Community Benefits Membership Fees Conference sponsorship

ASPLOS, CGO, GPCE, Haskell, ICFP, ISMM, LCTES, OOPSLA, PLDI, Fiscal Year ’09 Print Online POPL, PPDP, PPoPP, VEE, and many workshops. Professional $65 $25 Awards Student $40 $15 Actual cost of $86 $24 Lifetime Achievement, Service, Best PL Thesis, John Vlissides direct benefits Award, Most Influential Paper for ICFP, OOPSLA, PLDI, and POPL Latex and Microsoft word templates for conference papers Unchanged from last year. SIGPLAN Web Site Support for PL-related summer schools Direct benefits include: newsletters, mailed proceedings, annual CD, reduced Support for Educators to attend SIGPLAN conferences registration rates, but not awards, summer schools, PAC funding, etc.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 Membership Numbers Awards http://www.sigplan.org/awards 12000 SIGPLAN Today: Total: 2397 Nominations for 2010 Student: 144 PL Achievement: Rod Burstall Awards due Jan 5, 2010. 9000 Distinguished Service: Mamdouh Ibrahim

2008 Dissertation: Michael Bond and Viktor Vafeiadis

6000 Most Influential Paper from 10 years previously: ICFP, OOPSLA, PLDI, POPL

3000 John Vlissides Award: Ciera Jaspan

Newly created : The ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award ... recognizes substantial contributions to 0 FY 1990 FY 1992 FY 1994 FY 1996 FY 1998 FY 2000 FY 2002 FY 2004 FY 2006 FY 2008 programmability and productivity in computing and substantial community service or mentoring contributions. PLAN Professional PLAN Student PLAN Total Mod Professional Mod Student Mod Total Graph professional Graph Student Graph Total PL Software Systems Award in the works.

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SIGPLAN Finances

FY10 Budget FY09 Budget FY09 April Actual FY08 Actual Revenue Conference 1,296,242 1,436,104 957,260 1,724,174 Non-conference 278,156 300,319 261,226 335,716 Digital library 96,354 94,525 106,548 Total revenue 1,574,398 1,736,423 1,218,486 2,059,891 SIGPLAN Finances Expenses Conference 1,227,151 1,394,505 994,306 1,435,325 Non-conference 453,180 469,243 211,207 474,328 Cristina Cifuentes Total expenses 1,680,331 1,863,748 1,205,513 1,909,653 Treasurer Net -105,933 -127,325 12,973 150,238 Sun Microsystems Laboratories Fund balance 2,165,799 2,271,732 2,412,030 2,399,057 Fund bal req'd 703,946 785,269 785,269 757,990

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Conferences/Symposia Workshops “In cooperation” ASPLOS (SigARCH, SigOPS) CUFP ACL2 CGO (SigMICRO, IEEE) DAMP AOSD Vice Chair: Chandra Krintz DLS Erlang BoostCon GPCE FDPE ECOOP Haskell FOOL ICSE • Oversees organization of meetings: ICFP HIW ILC 22 conferences and 23 workshops this year. ISMM ML ISSTA – Conference location selection LCTES (SigBED) PASTE LDTA – General and program chair selection OOPSLA PEPM LISP50 – Program committee selection PLDI PLAN-X MASPLAS – Budget approval POPL (SIGACT) PLAS PADL – Resource for program and general chairs PPoPP PLPV PPDP • Repository for common knowledge. VEE (SIGOPS, USENIX) Scheme PPPJ Space VMCAI • Coordinates approval for new meetings. Transact Conferences in bold have more than 100 participants. WGP WikiSym Co-located meetings share color-coding. WMM

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 PLDI Statistics Health of Major Conferences • The last year has been very challenging economically PLDI Attendance Submitted Accepted Location • Has impacted all conferences negatively, in some subset of ways: 2009 219 196 41 Dublin • Corporate sponsorship down 2008 244 184 34 Tucson • Submissions down 2007 334 178 45 San Diego (FCRC) • Registration/Income down 2006 307 174 36 Ottawa • Significant SIGPLAN losses 2005 293 137 28 Chicago • OOPSLA 2004 246 127 25 Washington – Broadening event, Changing the brand: 2010 = SPLASH! 2003 347 131 28 San Diego (FCRC) – Technical program retains the OOPSLA brand 2002 235 169 28 Berlin

– Incrementally introducing partnership with SIGSOFT 2001 311 144 30 Snowbird – Budgeting for a smaller event to manage losses, cutting costs

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POPL Statistics ICFP Statistics

POPL Attendance Submitted Accepted Location ICFP Attendance Submitted Accepted Location

2009 240 160 36 Savannah Victoria 2008 217 99 35 Canada 2008 318 212 35 San Francisco 2007 160 119 32 Freiburg 2007 250 200 36 Nice, France Germany 2006 300 76 24 Portland 2006 264 167 33 Charleston 2005 187 87 26 Estonia 2005 212 172 31 Long Beach 2004 202 176 29 Venice 2004 167 80 21 Snow Bird 2003 182 126 24 New Orleans 2003 153 99 23 Uppsala

2002 219 128 28 Portland 2002 195 76 24 Pittsburgh 2001 167 66 18 Florence

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OOPSLA Statistics Proposing a new workshop OOPSLA Attendance Submitted Accepted Location

2008 751 117 33 Nashville • Simple process, particularly if co-locating with an existing conference. 2007 1225 156 33 Montreal • Proposals (page or two of ASCII) should include: 2006 1178 157 27 Portland – Topic/rational for meeting 2005 1081 142 29 San Diego – Dates, location – Organizing committee 2004 1172 173 27 Vancouver – Content selection process 2003 948 147 26 Anaheim – Proceeding plans 2002 1601 125 25 Seattle • Instructions on-line: Tampa (9/11 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/sigplan_workshop_proposal.htm 2001 1236 145 27 & Anthrax)

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 Current Issues Help for Meeting Organizers • Students • Program chair support • Conference attendance increasing (up to 40%) – http://www.sigplan.org/programchairs.htm • Heavily subsidized registration fees (~30-40% of real cost) – Program committee formation, plagerism policy, CFP/web site • Domain-specific mentoring workshops help, submission software (START), PC meeting suggestions, list • Double-blind reviewing of responsibilities • Up to the PC Chair; many strongly support its use • PC members to author submissions •General chair support • PLDI to allow in 2010 – http://www.sigplan.org/guidelinesforthechair.htm • Higher standard including using an external committee – Locations, hotel contracts, ACM approval process, budget formation, publication (DL) and proceedings, list of • ICFP SC strongly recommends disallowing starting 2010 responsibilities • PChair can choose not to take the recommendation • Many conferences considering “virtualizing” PC meeting

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PAC = mobility support

• For students participating in SIGPLAN activities

Professional Activities Committee • For SIGPLAN members –experiencing financial hardship PAC Awards –needing travel assistance for care takers or children Ben Zorn, Microsoft –traveling very long distance, Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University living in a poor country –child care

PLDI’09 Open Meeting

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SIGPLAN PAC can offer you an If you are award that covers • a student and • presenter or ! Student registration co-author of a paper/student ! Travel expenses in economy poster on a class SIGPLAN event and ! Shared accommodation • do not have the ! A free membership to funds to travel SIGPLAN for one year

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 Professional However, we appreciate members • If you keep the costs as low as possible • You are a SIGPLAN member • If your advisor is a SIGPLAN member • You want to participate in • If your institution shares part of the costs unique or important • If you only request support for one event SIGPLAN activities (e.g. standards meeting,…) SIGPLAN • You do not have the funds to attend the event Dr. S. Tandard

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Companion travel Child-care travel support • If you need a companion to travel because –You have a physical disability • On-site child care at –You are the parent of an infant < 2 year and you conferences arranged by the cannot travel without the infant parent • SIGPLAN can cover the non-shared • Travel costs for a companion, transportation for the companion (flight, train, specifically for non-shared …) transportation costs such as airfare. • Travel costs for children between the ages of two and sixteen.

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PAC Budget

PAC report 64 aw 2008-2009 52 aw

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Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 58 AWARDS ! $ 825 / AW 97.5% is for 2008 Most support goes to student travel student travel 50200

Pre -spent in 2007

Companion travel

Direct support CGO, ASPLOS

Student travel 2007-2008

! = 55 699 2007-2008

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Geographical distribution Geographical distribution

1 17 41 4 1

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Geo-money-wise 2008 FOOL’08 51% ISMM’08 PLAS’08 goes PPDP’07 to PPPJ’07 VEE’08 PLDI AOSD’08 POPL’08 Haskell’07 PLDI'08 OOPSLA’07 ICFP’07 LCTES’07 PASTE’07 VEE’07 PEPM PLDI’07

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 PLDI takes 50% of grants Money-wise

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Evolution How can you apply? http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm

2007-2008 granted

2008-2009 granted 2007-2008 reimbursed

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Charter: SIGPLAN Ed Board

Create “Why” document for non-PL people. Create detailed “How” documents Sample curricula Encourage authors to write appropriate texts. Create web page to present material and encourage discussion. Eventually expand focus from undergraduate courses to graduate courses. Encourage inclusion of appropriate PL material in curricula standards.

Thursday, June 18, 2009 Thursday, June 18, 2009 Members: SIGPLAN Ed Board

Kim Bruce (chair), Pomona College Kathleen Fisher (ex officio), AT&T Kathi Fisler, WPI Comments? Steve Freund, Williams College Dan Grossman, University of Washington Questions? Matthew Hertz, Canisius College Concerns? Gary Leavens, University of Central Florida Andrew Myers, Cornell University Larry Snyder, University of Washington

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