ML Family Workshop 2020: Call for presentations

I looked for a comparison: PLDI (also online, free registration) had 4297 registrants this year, including 1083 who posted on the Slack channel. (They report “around 450 registrants” for past physical conferences; I can’t find again the number of attendees for ICFP 2019 but I believe that it is very similar, maybe slightly higher.)

Edit: this being said, I think that the comparison is somewhat moot: what really counts is how many people have access to the scientific content provided by ICFP authors. Thankfully, a Youtube stream is available for anyone to follow the presentations for free. So we should be looking at the engagement numbers on Youtube after the conference ended. I still find it unfortunate that for-free participants are made to feel as second-class citizens; but I think that not having access to Q&A tools is probably fine for viewers, it is only really problematic for authors of presentations.

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