What does the EiC do? - acm-toce/documentation GitHub Wiki

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

Hold an informal ICER gathering.
Schedule October board meeting. We hold two of these for different time zones, usually in the first 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.

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.