The CICLING conference will be in Japan (Feb 2011) and they are introducing a new "open source" policy that I'm very happy to see :
http://www.cicling.org/2011/right.htm#Verifiability It's nice to see CICLING moving in this direction, and hopefully we'll see something similar come from some of the bigger *ACL events. Let's see. :) http://www.cicling.org/2011/ Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse