The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRAW) in an alliance with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE CS, is seeking to increase the participation of women and minorities in computing research.

CRA-W and CDC are jointly soliciting proposals for discipline-specific mentoring workshops in the broad field of computing. The goal of these discipline-specific mentoring workshops is to increase participation of members of underrepresented groups within a specific research area by providing career mentoring advice and discipline specific overviews of past accomplishments and future research directions. Specifically, the workshop should focus on helping young researchers at the graduate or post-graduate level become interested in and knowledgeable about the research and research paradigms of a specific discipline.

Prospective workshop organizers are requested to submit a proposal -at least 9 months prior to the proposed workshop date. The format for workshop submissions is left unspecified, but we recommend that organizers include at least the following information:

• Full contact information for the organizers - The team of organizers should include members of underrepresented groups.
• Research focus area of the workshop
• Proposed dates for the workshop
• Proposed workshop agenda
• Estimated number of workshop participants
• Advertising plans, especially plans for reaching out to underrepresented groups
• Past experiences with mentoring of women or underrepresented minorities
• Proposed budget and requested support from CRA-W and CDC
• Fundraising plans

• July, 2006: CRA-W and CDC Computer Architecture Workshop
• May, 2007: CRA-W and CDC Programming Languages Workshop: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/pl-summer-2007/.
• Oct, 2007: SOSP Women's Workshop: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~carla/womens_workshop/
• June, 2008: CRA-W/CDC Systems Research Mentoring Workshop: http://www.cis.udel.edu/systems-mentoring-workshop/
• June, 2008: Women in Theory (WIT) workshop 2008: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/index.php/Main/WIT08
• July, 2008: 3rd International Compulog/ALP Summer School on Logic Programming and Computational Logic, New Mexico State University: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~ipivkina/compulog.htm
• Aug, 2008: CompArch Summer School on Parallel Programming and Architectures: http://www.princeton.edu/~archss