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SIGPLAN-AV description

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+title: "SIGPLAN-AV"
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+SIGPLAN-AV is a subcommitee of SIGPLAN whose goal is to centralize the efforts of finding innovative and cost effective ways to:
+  1. enable remote participation (hybridization of conferences), and;
+  2. record conference talks for archival
+
+#### Current Members
+
+1. Bhakti Shah
+2. Chris Lam
+3. Jan-Paul Ramos
+4. John Hui
+5. Zixian Cai
+6. Guilherme Espada
+7. Apoorv Ingle
+
+#### Past Members
+
+1. Lief Anderson
+2. Benjamin Chung (and many more)
+
+
+#### For general chairs
+
+If you are a general chair of a SIGPLAN conference and are interested in using SIGPLAN-AV please email <[email protected]>.
+
+SIGPLAN owns enough hardware (laptops, cameras and microphones) which can be used to setup streaming and recording of upto 8 parallel co-located events.
+
+It is advisable to include the AV team atleast 3 months in advance, ideally before the contract with the conference venue is finalized to enable smooth functioning.
+
+
+#### For Prospective members
+
+If you are interested in helping us, we are always looking for more volunteers to help us at conferences! Please get in touch with us using the above email.