I spent two years building a piece of infrastructure for open access publishing in CS arxiv.org/abs/2504.10424. I've gotten positive feedback from authors, but most are quite ignorant about how publishing works (even in computer science). Thankfully we don't have to accept Microsoft Word.😁

Space is limited, and so there is a need to register, with priority going to people from companies which are most likely to benefit from the event.

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As with last year, students can register for free by emailing contact@fhe.org from their academic email address.

This year there will only be 200 seats available, so reserve them early!

Sponsors can also participate still by emailing with their proposals!

Personal interests and lack of interest in others of support for the editors

What you are seeing is the inevitable result of what I was trying to stop many years ago. Unless we support people standing up for standards then we do not get standards.

I have sympathy for the editors.

When IACR eprint editor many many years ago I tried to have a policy of accepting only papers which "looked" like an academic paper.

Got lots of vitriolic complaints from some sections of the community, and no one supported me. So I resigned.