SIGSAM and ISSAC evolution

The requirement to organize ISSAC in full sponsorship with the ACM (which will be enforeced with Options 1 and 2) causes problems in some countries, e.g. for Germany: the conference would be considered as a private event, external to the local organizing university, which will then prevent the confe...

The vote proposed to the community is unclear: - is it binding or just a poll to measure the opinion of the SIGSAM and ISSAC communities ? -> Answer: it is a poll which will help SIGSAM board together with ISSAC Steering committee to then take action - according to the ISSAC and SIGSAM bylaws, the t...

LIPICS publications are selective and in the case that they decline ISSAC then Option 3 is in trouble as there are no other free services with such a reputation. Overall Option 3 is rather vague and needs further investigation, including contact with the LIPICs publisher team to clarify its viability.

It is not clear whether the quality reputation of ACM publications will remain once the Author Payer model will be fully deployed.

Following on the benefits of being affiliated to the ACM: * colleagues in China identified that being affiliated to the ACM was of great help for obtaining national grants. Loosing this label may make it much more difficult for them to apply for research grants. * The ACM label is also very helpfull...

The cost for having ISSAC sponsored by ACM are hard to justify compared to the services actually provided by ACM to ISSAC. This year's "in sponsorship" organization was mostly an additional burden to the organizers. Overall the prize for Option 1 splits approximatively as follows: * 4k$ of...

Part of the activities in our community relate to software development: computer algebra systems, software implementations, experiments, etc. This is illustrated by software demonstration sessions at ISSAC and by the Richard Dimick Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering applied ...

The 15k$ required to put SIGSAM finances back in balance is a limited amount: if it financed on ISSAC's registrations, this would correspond to an increase of approximately 150$ per registration (ISSAC has usually 110-150 participants, from which 30-50 student registrations would not contribute to t...

This thread gathers the main arguments raised during the discussion that happened after SIGSAM business meeting during ISSAC in Raleigh on July 18, 2024.