by Benjamin Pierce, Michael Hicks, Crista Lopes, and Jens Palsberg on Jul 17, 2019 | Tags: carbon footprint, carbon offset, climate change, conferences
How should ACM address its contribution to climate change? After two years of discussions and study, the SIGPLAN Climate Committee proposes that (1) all ACM conferences should publicly *account* for the CO2e emitted as a result of putting them on; and that (2) ACM should put a *price* on carbon in conference budgets, to create incentive for organizers to reduce their footprints.
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by Jeremy Gibbons on Jul 3, 2019 | Tags: conferences, open access
This post is about Plan-S, a new policy being agreed by cOAlition-S, a consortium of (mostly) European research funding agencies. The policy will mandate Gold Open Access to the research funded by these agencies. The effects will be dramatic: in Programming Languages...
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