Gender Diversity and CS Conferences, cont'd
Addendum (Nov. 5, 2017): I brought up the idea from the previous post at a couple of larges CS conferences (OOPSLA and SOSP), and even male faculty members saw the value of it. Faculty with small children report they travel like I used to, by making the most minimal trips possible (typically only spending 2 days at a conference with the tightest possible flight connections). No one particularly enjoyed this, but it is widely seen as necessary to balance professional advancement and family responsibilities. In addition, I was approached by Philippe Vollichard, the person at EPFL responsible for sustainability, who saw this blog post and pointed me to an ETHZ initiative to reduce university travel because of its large carbon footprint. EPFL has a similar report (which doesn't appear to be online??), with the conclusion that the carbon footprint of airplane travel at EPFL is as large as the daily commute to and from campus and larger than energy consumption on campus. ...