Experience Reports Chair On Committee

(OopslaProgramCommitteeMembershipPatterns)

Most plenary sessions present ideas new to the whole industry. These ideas must be experientially or theoretically verified, but need not pass the test of broad applicability.

Ideas mature over the years through practice, and the first large-scale application of an idea is as significant as the first presentation of the idea itself. Practitioners often have trouble distinguishing the value and phenomena of new ideas from those of first adoption, or they misunderstand the intent of plenary sessions. This means the program committee often receives experience reports that are outside the intent of the program committee. The program committee could send these to the ExperienceReportsCommittee?, but that puts the ExperienceReportsChair? at a time disadvantage relative to the program schedule.

Therefore, invite the ExperienceReportsChair? to sit on the ProgramCommittee?. This allows free flow between these two committees, exchanging papers that authors have sent to the inappropriate forum. You might consider doing the same for the PosterChair? and DemosChair?.

--MamdouhIbrahim?/JimCoplien