Open parno opened 8 years ago
I agree that we could quite reasonably call the output of this process a journal. However, at this year's business meeting, some people raised concerns about changing to a journal after all the work that has been done to spread the word about the value of conferences for CS. At present, unless there's a strong consensus on changing to a journal, my inclination is to decouple the change to the submission process from the decision as to whether we call it a conference or a journal. In other words, we can change the submission process and continue to call it a conference, and then we can discuss changing the designation.
The "journal" vs. "conference" distinction plays differently at different universities. I'm told that in Europe, it's a very big deal when coming up for promotion, and it's especially a big deal when you're in high-level meetings arguing about how much funding should go to CS versus going to other fields in science and engineering. They'll trot out all their fancy journal publications and demean our conference publications.
You may prefer to allow some sort of dual-naming scheme. Every SIGGRAPH conference paper, for example, is also a paper in ACM Transactions on Graphics.
In Issue #7, @danwallach says: