I’m going to write a series of short blog posts and videos about the policies, process, terms, bylaws, best practice guides and procedures relating to organising CHI 2021.

The general chairs sit and report to the CHI Steering Committee(SC) which has 7 Policies and Processes and a set of CHI Steering Committee Terms (with a Core to CHI document) and a set of Members. 

Next, the CHI SC report to the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) and it has 4 core policies, 9 conference policies, 1 advice guide on organising a conference with links to other guides e.g. videos or all gender bathrooms and links to templates for conference series handbook and conference handbook  and it’s all governed by the SIGCHI bylaws.

Above that you have the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)  with 18 ACM Publications policies e.g  “ACM Policy on Reviewer Anonymity” or “ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions”, 5 general policies e.g. Travel Policy and Procedure for ACM Volunteers or ACM Privacy Policy (on the right), 3 best practice guides e.g. remote participation  (bottom right of link above), guidelines and procedures, 17 ACM bylaws –  e.g. ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and finally the crucially important SIG Conference Planning Guide with 61 sections. 

This post is just to signpost you and as I add in new posts in the weeks and months ahead I’ll come back and revise this points with pointers.