[TYPES] Could we temporarily stop having conferences in the US?

[Alex Potanin]

Just to point out again that this coordination is already done at SIGPLAN level - ask your respective SC chair - they should know better when picking a location. 😊

For the four from the spreadsheet we all have access to as respective SC chairs:

2026 (which was arranged in 2023): 3x US and 1x EU
2027: 1x US, 1x EU, 1x non-US, 1x TBC (may be EU)
2028: 2x non-US (one Canada) 2x TBC
2029: 1x EU 3x TBC

Does this help?

Cheers,
Alex.

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For what it's worth, we had a discussion about this on the ICFP Steering Committee. Many people share the concerns raised in this thread. There was no clear majority for avoiding conferences in the US -- largely due to the reasons Julia mentions.

Looking ahead, one idea might be to align the location of the different PACM PL conferences better -- for instance, ensuring that there is at least one conference in the US and Europe each year. Allowing presentations across different conferences (presenting a POPL paper at PLDI or visa versa), would make it easier for researchers to present their work at venue they can attend. This does require a bit of co-ordination at the SIGPLAN level - and it is not yet clear to me how much support there is for such an initiative.

  Wouter