Programs and Activities Sponsored by SIGSOFT

ACM SIGSOFT sponsors many activities and events. Here is a non-exhaustive list of them.

• CARES
• SIGSOFT Travel Support and Childcare Assistance at Conferences - CAPS
• WEBINARS
• Summer/Winter Schools
• Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW)
  • Africa Initiative. See here and here for 2024, and here for 2025

Here is a list of new initiatives that SIGSOFT is exploring, and the corresponding committees that are leading them:

• SIGSOFT History Committee: Will Tracz, Tony Wasserman, Luca Di Grazia, Yun Peng, Thomas Zimmerman, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marsha Chechik. The committee will build and maintain an archive of SIGSOFT-relevant historical information, including developing relevant wiki pages.
• SIGSOFT ACM Digital Library liaisons: Xiaoning Du and Tao Zhang. The liaisons will ensure that information about SIGSOFT (co)-located events has been correctly captured in ACM Digital Library.
• SIGSOFT Conference Program Committee Member Recognition Coordinators: Sylvain Hallé and Yepang Liu. The coordinators will create and mail personalized digital certificates for program committee roles of SIGSOFT (co)-sponsored conferences.
• Research Highlights coordinator: Silvia Abrahão. The coordinator will work with program chairs of SIGSOFT (co)-sponsored conferences to identify most promising papers for possible publication in Communications of the ACM.