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SIGPLAN website

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This is the version-controlled web pages for the ACM Special Interest Group SIGPLAN.

To edit the webpage, see https://github.com/SIGPLAN/SIGPLAN.github.io/wiki/Editing-www.sigplan.org

The content of each file is in markdown, and the layout of markdown files mirrors the final layout.

Jekyll:

• Jekyll is a ruby program for generating static web pages, as used by github
• http://jekyllrb.com/

Liquid:

• Liquid is a inline language for generating webpages
• http://docs.shopify.com/themes/liquid-basics
• https://github.com/shopify/liquid/wiki/liquid-for-designers

Maruku:

• Maruku is the markdown engine used by Jekyll.
• http://maruku.rubyforge.org/
• https://github.com/bhollis/maruku/blob/master/docs/markdown_syntax.md

To run the server locally, you should be able to just do make serve in the root directory of the SIGPLAN.github.io repository. The first time may take a few minutes as the requisite ruby libraries are installed and built. At the end, it should print out the URL at which it is serving -- probably localhost:4000 or some such.

sigplan.github.io's Issues

Delete /Committees directory?

I don't completely understand the .yaml stuff, but I think the /Committees directory here is dead code.

Reconsider the major links

Two minor points.

1. The pages

   Information for Authors Submitting Papers

   General Chair Guidelines

   Program Chair Guidelines

   (and Referee Guideline, if we add it)

include lists of useful links. Can these be cross-listed on the

Resources

page? Copy and paste means they will get out of sync, so use a pointer to the relevant section of the relevant page instead, or 'transclusion' if the content management system will handle it.

1. Every page has a list of major links at the top:

Home
Awards
Conferences
Resources
Research Highlights
Membership
Publications
I found this confusing, because the information I refer to most commonly is

Conference Information

and this is only accessible from the home page. Can we please either:

• ensure that all information can be reached from one of the quick links

  (that is, that they provide a partition of all the information of the web pages), or

• add 'Conference Information' to the quick links on every page, or

• remove the quick links, and just give a link to home.

The first option will help our readers most, but may be difficult; I'm perfectly happy with either of the second two options.

Fix OOPLSA Awards

2011 and 2013 are missing

ACM Fellows list is out of date

Someone should update the list of ACM fellows from the PL community on the SIGPLAN web site. It's really handy to have this list but it only goes to 2013.

http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/ACMFellows/

History of Programming Languages (HOPL)

History of Programming Languages (HOPL) page is not stored inside the webpages.

Figure out if this is intentional.

Finish Dissertation Award

There are no awards before 2010.

Add SLE as SIGPLAN Sponsored conference

Add title/link for SLE to sigplan.org and sigplan.org/Conferences. There is already a http://sigplan.org/Conferences/SLE/ page to be linked to.

Update instructions for nominators

Nominators need to be told that their nominations are stronger if they mmake contact with supporters beforehand. But gently, so as not to discourage nominatinos. This is an old TODO of Norman's; Phil suggested some language that appears on Piazza or in minutes somewhere.

Waiting on #43

POPL page is out of date

The POPL summary page is out of date.

Author instructions: Word template

Word template is difficult to use. Should we leave the reference to Word as is, warn users of potential difficulty, or perhaps delete it entirely?

(Factored out from PR #141, proposed by @wadler)

Tidy issues?

There seem to be quite a few issues here that are really old. If they're never going to happen, why not just delete them?

Latest Vlissides award winners not showing up

The data is there, but they are not showing up on the page for that award nor on the front page.

Add a 404 page

Add a proper 404 page.

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Not Found

The requested URL /X was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Add CGO to front pages, and contacts

CGO is missing from the list of conferences on the front page and from the list of SCs on the contact page:

http://sigplan.org/
http://sigplan.org/ContactUs/

Build automation into SIGPLAN SCs

The Steering committees should be driven from a single list. This is easier to edit/maintain.

Author instructions: How to declare third-party material

• The caption of a third-party figure or picture should contain an attribution statement.
• The publishing-rights agreement should list those third-party materials.
• Consider fair use as well.

Need to refactor instructions for awards

Instructions for awards are currently split across web pages and an old PDF. And parts of the PDF are out of date. The information needs to be refactored, and ideally it would be done such that there could be a single point of truth for common information (such as the fact that nominations are stronger if you actually contact the potential supporters).

Add link to Jan's Future Events

[Jan] I’ve created https://github.com/SIGPLAN/future-events/wiki

Missing page

The list of recipients seems to have gone missing here:
http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Achievement/

Adding election news

Dear SIG Member,

In accordance with ACM Bylaw 6, the following SIGs will hold elections in 2015: SIGACCESS, SIGACT, SIGAPP, SIGARCH, SIGBED, SIGBio, SIGCHI, SIGDA, SIGecom, SIGEVO, ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGITE, SIGMETRICS, SIGMIS, SIGOPS, SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, and SIGWEB.

ACM Policy and Procedures require that those SIGs holding elections notify their membership of candidates for elected offices. To see the slate of candidates, please visit the 2015 ACM SIG Election site, http://www.acm.org/sigs/elections .

In accordance with the SIG Bylaws, additional candidates may be placed on the ballot by petition. All candidates must be Professional Members of ACM, as well as members of the SIG. Anyone interested in petitioning must inform ACM Headquarters (Pat Ryan, ACM, 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, NY, NY 10121; [email protected]) and the SIG Viability Advisor (Will Tracz, [email protected]) of their intent to petition by 16 March 2015.

Additional information will appear in the February issue of ACM MemberNet and on the 2015 ACM SIG Election site.

Monique Chang
ACM SIG Elections Coordinator
Office of Policy and Administration

Systematically Check all Awards for Gaps

Add a how to make a change link

Add link for SIGPLAN Ada-Europe

PS: It would be nice if you could include a link to the Ada-Europe
web-site [3] on the "SIGPLAN Resources" page [4], for example after
the "Ada Programming Language SIG" item in the "Other WWW sites on
Programming Languages" subsection.

[3] http://www.ada-europe.org
[4] http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/

PAC.htm

The URL http://www.sigplan.org/PAC.htm was not found. Can you look into this please.