https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=2017Q3_Reports%3A_General_Chair 2026-06-28T06:43:55Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=72041&oldid=prev 2017-07-29T13:33:54Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:33, 29 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out approximately 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out approximately 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">KiddieCorp was recommended to me by Allison Druin who hired them to provide child care at CHI 2016 when she was the general chair of that conference.  Allison provided very useful advice, including that the first year of providing childcare at a conference is difficult, since </del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71995&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:30:40Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:30, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">over </del>60 "cold call" emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master's degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">approximately </ins>60 "cold call" emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master's degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71994&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:29:50Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:29, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to try </del>to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71993&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:28:47Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:28, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  My hope is that by offering childcare we make it easier for parents with young children to attend the conference, and thus engage in normal career building activities</ins>.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71992&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:27:42Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:27, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.  My goal for this is to help promote the careers of women in the ACL community, since a disproportionate amount of childrearing responsibility often falls on women, and since it can be hard for mothers with young children to attend conferences</ins>.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 &quot;cold call&quot; emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master&#039;s degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71991&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:24:00Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:24, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The activities that I undertook as General Chair were:  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1. </del>Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># </ins>Selecting the organizing committee.  Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. I selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself.  In addition to selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2. </del>In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># </ins>In my capacity as general chair, I wanted to try to try to make the conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, to provide on-site subsided childcare for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, and we have allowed conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3. </del>I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 "cold call" emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master's degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># </ins>I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 "cold call" emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master's degrees as supporter-level sponsors.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

ChrisCallisonBurch https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_General_Chair&diff=71990&oldid=prev 2017-07-25T20:23:38Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:23, 25 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place in Vancouver, Canada. ACL 2017 will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in downtown Vancouver from July 30th through August 4th, 2017.  I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have organized an excellent team to put together </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conference</del>.  I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have structured this report around their activities</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">  </del>In addition to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what is reported below</del>, I <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">am hoping </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">add some options </del>to make <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </del>conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We are going </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">investigate </del>childcare <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">options </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possibly allowing </del>conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) will take place <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next week </ins>in Vancouver, Canada. ACL 2017 will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in downtown Vancouver from July 30th through August 4th, 2017.   </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The activities that </ins>I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">undertook as General Chair were: </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1. Selecting </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">organizing committee</ins>.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Priscilla Rasmussen was already on-board as the local arrangements chair. </ins>I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">selected the program co-chairs, Regina Barzilay and Min-Yen Kan, in consultation with the ACL 2017 coordinating committee.    The remainder of the committee I picked myself</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>In addition to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">selecting people who I thought would be excellent in the roles, I made a conscientious effort to have a good gender balance in the organizing committee. I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2. In my capacity as general chair</ins>, I <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wanted to try </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">try </ins>to make <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>conference friendlier to participants bringing their children along.  <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I coordinated with the ACL Executive to hire a professional childcare company, KiddieCorp, </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provide on-site subsided </ins>childcare <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for the first time at an ACL conference.  We have also selected a kid-friendly venue for the social event, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">we have allowed </ins>conference goers to purchase breakfasts and dinners for their family members.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3. I wanted to ensure the financial viability of the conference, and to make sure that my experiment with offering childcare did not result in the conference making a financial loss, so I engaged in a higher level of outreach for new sponsorships than is typical for a general chair.  I sent out over 60 "cold call" emails to solicit sponsorship from new sponsors, and I followed up with many previous sponsors that Priscilla was having trouble contacting.  I sorted through the list of corporate participants from past conferences, and identified companies that were attending our conferences but who were not yet sponsors. I solicited two new platinum sponsors (Apple and Alibaba), several silver sponsors, and I added several new academic institutions who offer professional master's degrees as supporter-level sponsors. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">KiddieCorp was recommended to me by Allison Druin who hired them to provide child care at CHI 2016 when she was the general chair of that conference.  Allison provided very useful advice, including that the first year of providing childcare at a conference is difficult, since </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A note on gender balance in the organizing committee: I attempted to recruit an even number of women and men to organize ACL 2017. There are 12 male organizers (including myself)  and 12 female organizers.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:38, 24 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties | Demo Chair Duties]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties | Demo Chair Duties]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Tutorial_chair_duties | Tutorial Chair Duties]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Tutorial_chair_duties | Tutorial Chair Duties]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Student Research Workshop pages</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** [[Student_chair_duties | Student Chair Duties]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** [[Faculty_advisor_duties | Faculty Advisor Duties]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** [[Useful_checklist_of_things_to_do_(from_a_past_student_chair) | Checklist for student chairs]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:54, 24 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l7">Line 7:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 7:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have asked the organizers to update the [[Conference_Handbook | Conference Organization Handbook]] on the ACL admin wiki.  The following sections were updated (some of the sections hadn&#039;t been modified since 2008):</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have asked the organizers to update the [[Conference_Handbook | Conference Organization Handbook]] on the ACL admin wiki.  The following sections were updated (some of the sections hadn&#039;t been modified since 2008):</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties | Demo Chair Duties]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties | Demo Chair Duties]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Tutorial_chair_duties | Tutorial Chair Duties]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:44, 24 July 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have asked the organizers to update the [[Conference_Handbook | Conference Organization Handbook]] on the ACL admin wiki.  The following sections were updated (some of the sections hadn&#039;t been modified since 2008):</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I have asked the organizers to update the [[Conference_Handbook | Conference Organization Handbook]] on the ACL admin wiki.  The following sections were updated (some of the sections hadn&#039;t been modified since 2008):</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties ]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Demo_chair_duties <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">| Demo Chair Duties</ins>]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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