# Diversity officer Main goal: Develop guidelines and work with future chairs on improving diversity at NIME. Tasks: * Review, revise and/or create NIME policies * Work with future chairs on improving diversity Officers: * Laurel Pardue * Juan Pablo Martinez ## Background * [NIME Diversity Statement](http://www.nime.org/diversity/) * [NIME Code of Conduct](http://www.nime.org/code-of-conduct/) ## Inspiration * [Defining comfortable diversity](https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/diversity-inclusion-awareness/0/steps/39907) ### AMS/SMT Application Restrictions An approach to allow for more new people to present in the conference: > Only one proposal per person per society (American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory) is allowed. No one may appear on the program more than twice. An individual may participate in any of the presentation formats listed above and appear one other time on the program as a chair of a session or as a respondent. If a person submits a proposal as part of a multi-paper session, whether AMS-only or a joint session, they may not submit another proposal. > Proposals of the same or similar content cannot be submitted by the same person to both the AMS and the SMT. An individual may submit different proposals to the AMS and SMT but must indicate this double submission on the online submission page and select (in the case of double acceptance) which proposal would take priority. Authors who present on an SMT session may not also present on an AMS session or a joint AMS/SMT session. In the case of multiple acceptances, the Program Committee will give preference to any paper that is part of a proposed session. The Alternate Years Rule Those who participated in any of the seven presentation formats at the 2019 AMS meeting may not submit proposals for the 2020 meeting. Since that’s one of the most prestigious, and most rigorously administered, music conferences, it is a good benchmark. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://nime.gitbook.io/conference-cookbok/officers/diversity.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.