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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ACM SIGPLAN Announcement List [mailto:SIGPLAN-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Hicks<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 08, 2015 8:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> SIGPLAN-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG<br><b>Subject:</b> RFC: A journal for ACM conferences?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Dear SIGPLAN member,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Allow me to introduce myself: I am Michael Hicks, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and Chair of ACM SIGPLAN. I began my three-year term in July 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>I am writing to encourage you to <b>make your opinion heard</b> concerning a new <b>proposal by the ACM</b>. The substance of the proposal is a <b>new journal series for publishing select ACM conference proceedings</b>, in order to recognize <i>high-quality computer science conference publications as just as good as (or better than!) those in reputed journals.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>I support the idea, with caveats, as I have written on my blog:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/09/01/pl-conference-papers-to-get-a-journal/" target="_blank">http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/09/01/pl-conference-papers-to-get-a-journal/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Please <b>familiarize yourself with the proposal and respond to ACM's survey</b>, making your opinion known. Links to the proposal and the survey are in my blog post, and I've also collected them below. ACM is very interested in your feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>If you would like to share your opinions with me, to discuss with the executive committee, please comment on the blog, or send me an e-mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Thanks for your support of SIGPLAN!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>-Mike Hicks, ACM SIGPLAN Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Proposal: <a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/9/191173-should-conferences-meet-journals-and-where/fulltext" target="_blank">http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/9/191173-should-conferences-meet-journals-and-where/fulltext</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Survey: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PACM2015" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PACM2015</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=3 width="100%" align=center></div><p align=center style='text-align:center'>To unsubscribe from the SIGPLAN-ANNOUNCE list, click the following link:<br><a href="http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=SIGPLAN-ANNOUNCE&A=1" target="_blank">http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=SIGPLAN-ANNOUNCE&A=1</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>