[TYPES] Towards Sustainable Open Access: thoughts on the ACM OPEN

[Robert Rand]

I'd add that I reached out to all of the candidates on behalf of the
signatories to the OpenACM petition, to get details on their positions on
open access. All of the responses are available in the Google doc below and
I'd encourage you to read it before voting in the election (and please do
vote!). You should have received information on voting in an email with the
subject line "2020 ACM General Election".

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oeafn8_N00fW1Exi1K-x7Jw6Pc0_ElZv7XZBF8soTBE/edit?usp=sharing


Best,
Robert

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 3:16 AM <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:

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> Dear type theorists,
>
> some months ago, we had a discussion about the ACM and open access.
>
> If you are interested in this issue and you are an ACM member, I'd
> like to draw your attention to the fact that the ACM currently has an
> election going on, for everything from president downwards. You will
> have received an email with instructions on how to vote
> electronically. It is very easy to look through the list of candiates
> (even using CTRL-F) and see who said something about open access in
> their statements. Definitely not all candidates have this on their
> radar. The ones that do can either be paraphrased as "we did a great
> job with open access" or "we need to push for better open access".
>
> -- Peter
>