## Onward! @ SPLASH 2023 – Call for Papers & Essays https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-papers https://2023.splashcon.org/track/splash-2023-Onward-Essays ### Important dates - *Fri 28 Apr 2023*: submission deadline - Wed 21 Jun 2023: first round notifications - Fri 21 Jul 2023: revision due - Fri 11 Aug 2023: final notification - Sun 10 Sep 2023: camera ready deadline Submission site Onward! Papers: https://onward23papers.hotcrp.com/ Submission site Onward! Essays https://onward23essays.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the PC chairs at onward@splashcon.org. Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet fully proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. ### Onward! Papers Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not looking for research-as-usual papers; conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged. ### Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Senior Researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Professor in Software Engineering at University of Groningen (RUG) http://www.cwi.nl/~storm