@Isaac please assign priority low, add a deadline to the task (last date you expect you or Diego to work on it) and move it to Staged or In progress depending on the state. thanks.

Done - thanks! Weekly update:

• I've connected with past chairs to understand their learnings which mainly boil down to: good publicity for submissions (luckily I know this year's publicity chair), clarity around expectations for submissions or we'll likely receive a decent number of off-topic submissions, and not accepting more than probably ~15 folks so there is time to give each participant a good level of feedback.

Update:

• 18 submissions to Symposium that we're gathering reviewers for. This is a nice load as most of them appear to be good quality and last year they had 20 but that was evidently far too many so this should allow us to accept a reasonable proportion without overloading the day. They had 98 submissions last year and I suspect a large difference there is the location (South Korea) and reduced travel from the US.

Update:

• We accepted 11 submissions. Camera-readies are due in late August but Sheridan handles that so I don't have to do any validation (as with ACL workshops).
• Next question to tackle will be how to have folks present at the conference and what the program looks like. My co-chair will be taking the lead on that though as he will be in-person and knows the community better than me.