Thanks for your detailed response. I knew that ACM and other were a factor in many heuristics for evaluating conferences, but I had no idea to which extent! Thi

Thanks for your detailed response. I knew that ACM and other were a factor in many heuristics for evaluating conferences, but I had no idea to which extent! This is really sad… Congrats for your move to open access with FDG :-). It's really sad that putting the papers on arXiv + hosting a web page on the conference website saying "these versions of these papers have been accepted at this conference after peer-reviewing etc." is not sufficient. There is a real problem here, because clearly the quality of the results would be exactly the same as behind a paywall hosted by the ACM. Thanks for the pointer to eScholarship too.