[GDNET] Call for GD SafeToC advocates

Martin Nöllenburg noellenburg at ac.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Oct 15 11:25:05 CEST 2019


Dear members of the GD community,

One month ago at this year’s Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, the steering committee discussed an invitation to join the SafeToC [1] volunteer initiative to prevent and combat harassment in conferences of theoretical computer science. Both the steering committee as well as a large majority of the participants of the business meeting were supportive of GD joining this initiative and its growing list of participating conferences. 

One step in implementing an anti-harassment policy for GD is to nominate a number of so-called SafeToC advocates (see [2] for a description of their role), who are community volunteers serving for a few years as contact persons during the conferences and helping to set up a code of conduct for GD from 2020 onward. 

This is a call for indications of interest to everyone who is interested in serving as such an advocate for GD and who is regularly attending the GD conferences. If this applies to you, please contact the steering committee chair Stephen Kobourov <kobourov at cs.arizona.edu> by October 31, 2019. 

Best regards,
Martin Nöllenburg (on behalf of the GD Steering Committee)



[1] http://safetoc.org
[2] http://safetoc.org/index.php/information-for-toc-advisors/


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