<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone" class="u-url mention">@<span>chrisamaphone</span></a></span> Different conference obviously have different cultures around this, but ICFP which I know best has always had a GC who is in some sense local. The other change is that these things are more professionalized than when we were in grad school, so some of those roles are taken on by professional organizers hired by SIGPLAN.</p>