[TYPES] [External] Why are ACM conference registrations so expensive now?

[Caleb Stanford]

Can someone TL;DR the annual reports? :)
I found the following

Appendix B:
POPL '21: The 48th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on ATTENDANCE: 432 945
SIGLOG  0.00
Principles of Programming Languages INCOME: $91,050.00 $168,255.00 SIGACT
 0.00
EXPENSE: $78,108.50 $77,952.23 SIGPLAN   100.00
SURPLUS/LOSS: $12,941.50 $90,302.77

Appendix C:
PLAN total income: 920,579
PLAN org:  365,456
PLAN conferences:   325,048
FY'21 year end balance:  3,278,975

caleb



On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 7:34 AM Ingle, Apoorv N <apoorv-ingle at uiowa.edu>
wrote:

> [ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list
> ]
>
> Hi Neel,
>
> I do not have a direct answer to your question but here are some annual
> reports for SIG conferences:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/sgb/annual-reports/sig-governing-board-fy-2021-annual-reports__;!!IBzWLUs!SCtZuJ5QntVpimNjdxW0dTZ0K59McBLY-BI2dAymobUC4WVUjRhhRzZsblwz_8qdO3XNZ_0IlJ_VEBr7FCs-BnKC6MSv6r77GAg$ 
> that put out some numbers on the over all expenses of the conferences.
>
> Cheers,
> Apoorv
>
> > On Dec 13, 2023, at 06:03, Neel Krishnaswami <nk480 at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > [ The Types Forum,
> http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list ]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just registered for POPL, and the total cost was over 2000 USD. This
> seems really high, and it seems something that has gotten a lot worse over
> the last year or two. For example, ICFP a few months ago was 1500 USD, and
> POPL last year was 1375 USD.
> >
> > Does anyone know what factors have been driving up the cost of our
> conferences up so quickly? I'm worried we're making our events inaccessible
> to anyone but the best-funded researchers and institutions.
> >
> > Best,
> > Neel
> >
>
>