The EiC's primary duty is to oversee how submissions are reviewed and what gets published. This includes:

• Handling submissions
• Inviting and training new Associate Editors (AEs)
• Communicating regularly with AEs about journal changes
• Soliciting proposals for special issues

But there are several other duties they have related to this. Here's a calendar of their ad-hoc work each year:

Annual tasks

January

• Schedule March board meeting. We hold two of these for different time zones, usually in the first week of March at 7 Pacific (for CST, EST, and CET) and 2 Pacific (for PST, CST, EST, Australasia, and Asia). (This week was voted one of the least bad by board members in 2022).

February

• Hold board meeting to build community and discuss journal policy.

• Plan an informal SIGCSE gathering. We typically gather whoever is at the conference and whoever wants to join virtually to socialize, discuss issues top of mind, and make space for advocacy.

March

• Hold an informal SIGCSE gathering.

April

May

June

• Documentation audit. Year-round documentation maintenance will only go so far in preventing this documentation from going stale. Each June, the Editor-in-Chief will review all of these pages for accuracy, and coordinate any revisions with the editorial board and broader research community.

• Plan an informal ITiCSE gathering. We typically gather whoever is at the conference and whoever wants to join virtually to socialize, discuss issues top of mind, and make space for advocacy.

July

• Hold an informal ITiCSE gathering.

• Plan an informal ICER gathering. We typically gather whoever is at the conference and whoever wants to join virtually to socialize, discuss issues top of mind, and make space for advocacy.

• Begin formation of the Distinguished Paper selection committee. The committee should be formed by the beginning of September.

• Broadcast nominations to the committee. Send a message on social media and the SIGCSE-members list with a list of eligible papers, soliciting nominations.

August

• Hold an informal ICER gathering.

• Schedule October board meeting. We hold two of these for different time zones, usually in the third week of October at 7 Pacific (for CST, EST, and CET) and 2 Pacific (for PST, CST, EST, Australasia, and Asia). This week was voted one of the least bad by board members in 2022.

September

• Send ACM TOCE articles at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. The EiC asks the ACM journal administrator for a list of papers and corresponding authors and their email addresses from August 31 of the previous year to September 1 of the current year, and then solicits interest from authors in presenting at SIGCSE. The EiC then works with the Board to rank the papers expressing interest according to the board's opinion of what work would be best to share and discuss at the conference. The EiC then shares the ranked list with the upcoming SIGCSE Technical Symposium program co-chairs and they select from the ranked list and send invitations.

October

• Hold board meeting to build community and discuss journal policy.

November

December

Delegation

When possible, the Editor-in-Chief delegates tasks. For example, many journal process and policies can be proposed, planned, and even executed by volunteers from the broader community. Additionally, the Editor may also delegate tasks to an assistant of their choice. Tasks appropriate for delegation include, but are not limited to:

• Planning and maintaining a communication strategy, to ensure that the broader community is aware of the journal, changes to its policies, and opportunities to support and engage with it.
• Triaging and managing the backlog of change requests for the journal, to ensure the Editor is attending to backlogged, pending, and ongoing projects, and connecting with community to advance them.