On May 3, 5:42 pm, leec <lee...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 1, 6:20 pm, Steve <st...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:> SIGAPL Friends:
>
> > The ACM SIG Governing Board (SGB) held a meeting on February 11, 2008,
>
> <snipped>
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Is there a precedent for such a merger within the context of SIGPLAN,
> or other ACM SIGs? If so would be interesting to know the +/- of those
> consolidations from the view point of the group being subsumed.
>
> Lee Courtney
> lee (underscore) courtney (at) acm (dot) org
Hi Lee:
I'm not aware of precedent for this merger. In previous cases where
the ACM SIG Governing Board voted to decharter a SIG, the SIG was
simply dissolved with members given the option to join some other SIG
of their choice for the balance of their current membership. I
believe this is an indication that the SGB wishes SIGAPL activities to
continue and that SIGPLAN is a viable home for us. Though never
explicitly stated, there may be a desire on the part of the SGB to
minimize the number of SIGs to make things more manageable.
Regards,
Steve Rogers


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