(1) The Computing Research and Education Association of Australia (CORE) ranks conferences and journals in computer science. PODC was up for review at the end of 2020, and thanks to the efforts of the entire community in providing data, PODC kept the top ranking of A*. The report can be found here: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/justification/CORE2021/4606PODC.pdf I'd like to especially thank Andrea Richa and Jukka Suomela for their assistance in preparing the materials. (2) PODC 2021 will be held virtually July 26-30. At the business meeting, we will be electing people for the positions of steering committee chair (3 year term) and member-at-large (2-year term). If you are interested in serving in either of these positions, please speak up at the business meeting and be prepared to say a few sentences. For more information about the positions, see this webpage: https://www.podc.org/podc-organization/ and feel free to contact the current SC chair (Jennifer Welch) and at-large member (Youla Fatourou). -- ________________________________________________________________ Jennifer L. Welch Regents' Professor, Chevron Professor II Department of Computer Science and Engineering 3112 TAMU, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA email: [log in to unmask], url: https://engineering.tamu.edu/cse/profiles/jwelch.html tel: +1-979-845-5076, office: 425G H.R. Bright Building __________________________________________________________________ ############################ Unsubscribe: https://optout.acm.org/unsubscribe.cfm?rl=PODC&RE=&UEMAIL;