SIGPLAN 1

SIGPLAN Viability Report

October 30, 2006Jack DavidsonSIGPLAN Chair

SIGPLAN 2

SIGPLAN Financials

• Fund Balance: $1,996,233 (increased by $146,411)– Most conferences are making small

profit (rising conference attendance)– Careful shepherding of OOPSLA– DL income increased ($74K to $108K)

• Considering print dues increase– $50 to $65 (Actual cost: $85.93)– Electronic membership is $25 (Actual

cost: $24.14)

SIGPLAN 3

SIGPLAN Membership and Volunteer Development

• Continuing decline in membership but slowing– 12.5% 2003 2004; 9.6% 2004

2005, 6.6% 2005 2006

• Actions– Encouraging conference attendees

to join ACM and PLAN– Encouraging student memberships

SIGPLAN 4

Conferences

• Five major conferences– POPL (264 attendees; 5 workshops and 1 co-

located symposium)– PLDI (312 attendees; 3 workshops and 3 co-

located conferences)– ICFP (216 attendees; 7 workshops)– OOPSLA (1140 attendees in 2006; 3 co-located

events)– ASPLOS (265 attendees in 2004) co-sponsored

with SIGARCH, SIGOPS

• Other smaller conferences/symposia– LCTES, VEE, ISMM, PPoPP, PPDP, CGO

• In cooperation with 13 conferences in 2005

SIGPLAN 5

Community Activities

• PAC program– Funds student authors to attend

SIGPLAN-sponsored conferences– Distributed ~$35K last year—did not

turn anyone down

• Most Influential Paper Awards– Retrospective awards (looks back

ten years)– POPL, PLDI, ICFP, and OOPSLA

SIGPLAN 6

Community Activities

• ACM History Projects– Oral histories of John McCarthy, Tony Hoare,

Adele Goldberg (share costs with ACM History Committee)

– Funded creating transcripts of a 1972 interviews with PL pioneer Ralph Griswold (in conjunction with National Museum of American History)

• Commissioned creation of a professionally designed and maintained LaTeX conference template (Word and Frame versions have been created by volunteers)