July 2021 SIGCOMM Newsletter

31 July 2021 - 8:13pm — admin

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Call for interest in leadership positions - Due August 9
While the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer are elected positions, the SIG has a number of other positions that are filled by appointment. Please consider expressing your interest or suggesting someone else! These positions are now open:
 
Information Services Director
Education Director
Director of Diversity and Inclusion
CARES Co-Chair or Committee Member
Awards Committee Chair
 
To express interest, send email to Ellen (ewz@cc.gatech.edu) with a paragraph about past SIGCOMM involvement and a paragraph about interest in the position (or positions) by Monday, August 9. We especially invite interest from those historically underrepresented in SIGCOMM and/or in SIGCOMM leadership. 
 

SIGCOMM COMMUNITY CONFERENCES SURVEY
 
As availability of vaccines begins to change the COVID-19 situation, the SIGCOMM Executive Committee is exploring how it can best support events with some return to in-person activities. To help us plan for the next few years in a way that best supports the community, it would be very helpful to us if you can fill out this survey:
https://forms.gle/NhtMfsWq6wbVvdH96
 

SIGCOMM 2021 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you all to ACM SIGCOMM 2021, the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication. We are excited to announce that the SIGCOMM main program will for the first time extend over four, instead of three, days, bringing an extra day of learning, networking, discussion, and more! Our main program includes 55 full-length papers, a keynote talk by the SIGCOMM Award winner, Hari Balakrishnan; the announcement of the SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award; a best of CCR session; a Student Research Competition; and two poster sessions with 21 posters and 9 demos. Furthermore, the main program is complemented by eight workshops, six tutorials, and three hackathons. And we will be providing a mentoring program to assist junior researchers, dedicated slots to meet our sponsors, as well as various other social and mentoring events towards making this a vibrant, interactive conference. Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to provide an aggressive fee waiver program that we hope can enable all to attend. To register, please visit:
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/registration.html
 

SIGCOMM 2021 CALL FOR PODS AND WATCH PARTIES
 
With increased access to vaccination, relaxation of local travel and gathering restrictions are quite possible in certain regions. In support of a return to in-person activities, SIGCOMM'21 is calling for creation of "watch parties" and "pods" to allow small groups to meet where it is safe to do so. To propose a pod, or to see how to join a pod near you, please visit:
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2021/pods.html

 

SIGCOMM CARES Recommendations document in response to HotNets incident (December 2020)
In September 2020, the SIGCOMM CARES committee was made aware of a situation that arose in the HotNets 2020 review process. SIGCOMM CARES received two complaints, one sent by all three authors and one from the lead author alone. The incident was discussed in the committee and multiple parties involved were consulted, leading to a list of 7 recommendations. The implementation of these recommendations by the different actors responsible for overseeing the review process, namely ACM, SIGCOMM and Conference Steering Committees, PC chairs, PC committees and the CARES Committee, will hopefully help prevent similar incidents in the future. 
 

 

SIGCOMM CARES Community Meetings
CARES planned two community meetings in April 2021 to communicate and clarify its role. These meetings are intended to serve as both sessions on CARES and a means to foster discussion on how CARES and ACM might evolve to better serve the community as well as a forum to answer questions that community members may have.
 
1st Meeting -- Friday, April 2, from 2pm ET

2nd Meeting -- Friday, April 23, at 9am ET
 

 

SIGCOMM 2021 CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
 
Being a student volunteer is a great opportunity to get plugged into the community -- meet the organizing committee and attendees, and learn how to run a conference! Opportunities will include stimulating discussions on the slack, monitoring the conference, helping to report problems, running platforms, helping us brainstorm, and more! No experience needed (we will teach you what you need to know!). To sign up, please email a resume and brief description of your interests to sigcomm21.chairs@gmail.com with "[SIGCOMM - Volunteer]" in the subject line.