Re: [Tccc] (changed topic): too many meetings

Joe Touch wrote:

The questions you should ask yourself are:

- when was the last time you declined a TPC invitation
because you felt the meeting was overcrowding the field?

- when was the last time you changed where you sent a paper
because you felt the meeting wasn't adding to the field
(vs. "the best place where the paper had the best shot")?

[Sankar, Ravi]
[Sankar, Ravi] I have tried to do it and stay away from sending papers to conferences which is not familiar or held in places somewhere in Mediterranean or remote place where I know chances of going and presenting is slim. Having said that yes we are little bit guilty as anyone in that when we have a paper ready for submission we look at the right place where it will have the best shot. This is purely for the reason of being selfishness to promote the student's work and encouraging them to publish and helping them to graduate. In this sense we need other avenues

- if you've ever been in a position to endorse a meeting
(as a TC chair, etc.), when was the last time you declined
a request with the reason of overcrowding?

(FWIW, for me the answer to all three is "within the last month")

We tried to deal with this very actively in TCGN (now TCHSN) as far back
as 1996 - 13 years ago. The response was generally to "let a thousand
flowers bloom, and the best will survive".

FWIW, one could argue that our entire field exists as the benefit of
that approach --- or we'd all be publishing at SOSP, e.g..

Keep in mind that our size pales in comparison to even pocket
disciplines in medicine and law. They scale, and they don't particularly
study scalability ;-) I'd be surprised if we couldn't weather this level
of growth.

Joe
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