The first global conference on algorithmacy — the competency through which a worker coordinates with another human through an algorithmic third party.
La Brea, Trinidad & Tobago · Late Oct / Early Nov 2026 Hosted by GauntleTT · CFP / v01
→ Website: algorithmacy.com → Call for papers: this repository → Contact: Roger Hunt — rhunt@bentley.edu
This repository is the call for papers and submission intake for the Algorithmacy Conference. Submissions are made by opening a pull request that adds your abstract to the /submissions/ directory.
All submissions and reviews are public from the moment of intake. See Review policy below.
- Read
CONTRIBUTING.mdfor the full submission workflow. - Copy
submissions/TEMPLATE.mdtosubmissions/<your-handle>.md. - Fill in the template: title, type, track, 300–500-word abstract, outline, author bios.
- Open a pull request against
main. Reviewers will respond on the PR thread.
There is no separate submission portal. The pull request is the submission.
- Full paper — original research, 6–8 pages
- Note — short contribution, 2–3 pages
- Panel — proposed session with 3–4 participants
- Poster — visual contribution, accompanied by a 1-page extended abstract
- Practitioner report — field account from someone doing the work, 2–4 pages
See TRACKS.md for the full list of questions per track.
- TR.01 — Coordination & Mediation
- TR.02 — Algorithmic Management
- TR.03 — Platform Labor & Worker Voice
- TR.04 — Trust, Opacity & Governance
- TR.05 — Methods, Lineage & Practice
Reviews are open, signed, and published.
- Open — submissions and review threads live on this repository from the moment of intake. There is no anonymized stage.
- Signed — reviewers attach their names to their assessments. Accountability is a feature of the review, not a compromise of it.
- Published — accepted papers ship alongside their full review history.
A double-blind workflow is incompatible with a public-PR intake; open review is the methodologically honest fit — and consonant with the conference's own questions about algorithmic opacity and accountability. We follow established open-review practice at F1000Research, eLife, OpenReview.net, and The BMJ.
- Founders' Paper Award — most significant theoretical contribution
- Pitch Lake Prize — early-career researcher award
- GauntleTT Practitioner Award — best practitioner report
Limited support available for LMIC scholars, doctoral students, and worker representatives. Indicate need with your abstract.
AI assistance is welcome and confers no penalty. We care about the quality of the contribution, not the method. If you use AI, the result should be excellent — obvious slop will not be reviewed well regardless of how it was produced. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full policy.
Opening a pull request is a public, dated, timestamped record of your contribution. In any future priority dispute, the conference will support your claim based on the PR timestamp. See CONTRIBUTING.md.
- Style: APA 7
- Format: Markdown (
.md) for abstracts; PDF (in the PR description as an attachment) for full papers - License: Open access. Authors retain copyright; accepted papers published under CC BY 4.0.
This entire conference setup — the website, the CFP infrastructure, the open-review workflow — is open source. We want other conferences to be able to adopt this model.
- Code (website HTML/CSS/JS) is MIT-licensed
- Content (README, CONTRIBUTING, TRACKS, templates, submissions) is CC BY 4.0
- This repository is set up as a GitHub template: click "Use this template" to clone it for your own venue
- See
FORKING.mdfor a guide on what to swap and what to keep
/ — website source (deployed at algorithmacy.com via Vercel)
/submissions/ — submitted abstracts (one .md per submission)
/submissions/TEMPLATE.md — copy this to start a submission
TRACKS.md — the five tracks and their guiding questions
CONTRIBUTING.md — submission workflow in detail
README.md — this file
- Roger Hunt — rhunt@bentley.edu
- Or open an issue on this repository