[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers & Essays: Onward! @ SPLASH 2024

[Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni]

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## Onward! @ SPLASH 2024 – Call for Papers & Essays

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-papers__;!!IBzWLUs!S1XqhDHoc5g1YEDpZPb3EVHj7VSRPbQD80wOmh_ICU1VDbz3EkLbMoU4cqSGloSNQLbUWd3GQjTYG0SctA2Q_G3nZ8SUeinEGwykiZ8eFiY$ 
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### Important dates

- *Thu 25 Apr 2024*: submission deadline
- Thu 6 Jun 2024: first round notifications
- Thu 18 Jul 2024: revision due
- Thu 8 Aug 2024: final notification
- Sun 1 Sep 2024: camera-ready deadline

Submission site Onward! Papers: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onward24papers.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!S1XqhDHoc5g1YEDpZPb3EVHj7VSRPbQD80wOmh_ICU1VDbz3EkLbMoU4cqSGloSNQLbUWd3GQjTYG0SctA2Q_G3nZ8SUeinEGwyk1toD_wk$ 
Submission site Onward! Essays: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onward24essays.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!S1XqhDHoc5g1YEDpZPb3EVHj7VSRPbQD80wOmh_ICU1VDbz3EkLbMoU4cqSGloSNQLbUWd3GQjTYG0SctA2Q_G3nZ8SUeinEGwykftds-VY$ 

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions
please contact the PC chairs.

Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on
everything to do with programming and software: including processes,
methods, languages, communities and applications. Onward! is more
radical, more visionary and more open than other conferences to ideas
that are well-argued but not yet fully proven. We welcome different
ways of thinking about, approaching and reporting on programming
language and software engineering research.

### Onward! Papers

Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that
could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But
it is not looking for research-as-usual papers; conferences like
OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous
validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are
necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude
discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some
degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for
progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation
such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and
substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new
ideas is strongly encouraged.

### Onward! Essays

Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing
about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long
or short.

An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story
about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal
view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of
discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It
can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to
reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software,
programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly
and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or
its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or
anthropological underpinnings.