Reflections on Organising Virtual SPLASH 2020
Introduction In November 2020, I was the Virtualisation Co-Chair of SPLASH 2020 ( https://2020.splashcon.org/ ) that had a number of important innovations that I would like to share here so that future SIGPLAN conference and others can reflect upon and hopefully follow suit. Firstly, I'd like to acknowledge that the SPLASH 2020 was a massive effort on the behalf of Hridesh Rajan as GC, Jan Vitek, Steve Blackburn, and myself as Virtualisation Co-Chairs, and very importantly Benjamin Chung (Northeastern), Wenyu Zhao (ANU), and Zixian Cai (ANU) as Video Co-Chairs. Note that on purpose we had Hridesh and Benjamin in the US, Jan Vitek in the EU, Steve, Wenyu, Zixian, and myself in Australasia to make the "timezone independent" SPLASH 2020 model work. We had a great support from Ed Nutting from CLOWDR team and Elmer van Chastelet from Conf.Researchr team who both provided their services to help SPLASH 2020 experiment with a lot of cool innovations. When we started virtuali