# Focs Camera Ready > Use when converting a FOCS (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) acceptance into its deliverables — the IEEE proceedings version with copyright and de-anonymization steps, the public arXiv/ECCC full version the CFP expects, the New York talk, and award-eligibility hygiene. - Skill: `thedixitjain/focs-camera-ready` (Agent Skill) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add thedixitjain/focs-camera-ready` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/thedixitjain/focs-camera-ready/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Research & Search - Author: thedixitjain (https://skillmd.com/u/thedixitjain) - Updated: 2026-09-08 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/thedixitjain/focs-camera-ready --- # FOCS Camera-Ready Acceptance at FOCS creates two publication duties with different owners of truth: a proceedings version, produced to IEEE specifications and published via IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, and a public full version with complete proofs that the CFP expects on arXiv, ECCC, or an equivalent open host by the camera-ready deadline (2026 CFP, checked 2026-07-08; the 2026 camera-ready date and format instructions were not public at check time — the acceptance packet is the controlling source, 待核实). This skill sequences both. ## The two deliverables | | Proceedings version | Public full version | |---|---|---| | Publisher | IEEE (Xplore + CS Digital Library) | You (arXiv / ECCC) | | Role | Citable record of the FOCS acceptance | Record of correctness — the document experts actually read | | Length | Per acceptance packet (待核实) | Unlimited; all proofs | | Rights | IEEE copyright/publication form (electronic; exact form 待核实) | You retain arXiv license choice | | Deadline | Camera-ready date (待核实) | CFP expectation: same date | | Failure cost | Paper dropped from proceedings | Community reads a proofless announcement; reputational, and real | Treat the full version as the primary deliverable and the proceedings file as its formatted excerpt — that ordering produces consistent documents; the reverse ordering produces a proofless PDF and an orphaned preprint. ## De-anonymization, done completely Reversing double-blind is more than restoring the author block: - Author names, affiliations, emails, ORCIDs in the packet's required format and order (author-order changes after acceptance need chair approval). - Acknowledgements and grant numbers restored — check funder mandates now, since some require specific contract-number phrasing and open-access handling of the accepted version. - Self-citations rewritten out of the third person where it now reads absurdly ("Chen et al. [7] — the present authors — showed…" becomes "In earlier work [7] we showed…"). - The "full version" pointer made concrete: replace "the full version" with the actual arXiv/ECCC identifier on the first page. ## Consistency audit before the deadline The one camera-ready failure that follows a theory paper forever is divergence between the proceedings version and the full version. Run the statement-freeze check across the two sources one last time: ```bash # same extractor as focs-reproducibility; both sources, post-edits ./extract_statements.sh proceedings-src/ fullversion-src/ # hashes must match: no theorem statement may differ between the # document people cite and the document people check # then verify the cross-pointers resolve: grep -o 'arXiv:[0-9v.]*' proceedings-src/*.tex # correct ID, correct version ``` If reviewer comments prompted real changes (a repaired lemma, a weakened claim), apply them to *both* documents and record them in the full version's changelog ("v3, camera-ready: Lemma 6.2 hypothesis corrected following committee comments"). Improvements beyond reviewer comments are safe when they strengthen exposition; new results belong in the journal version, not in a camera-ready that no longer matches what was refereed. ## The November talk and the awards file - **Talk:** every accepted FOCS paper gets a program slot in New York (November 8–11, 2026); whether the 2026 program runs single-track or parallel sessions was unannounced at check time (待核实). Build the talk from the ten-page window's narrative — problem, obstacle, one real idea — not from the section structure; twenty minutes fits one idea. - **Registration and attendance duties** for accepted papers (who must register, in-person requirements): 待核实 in the acceptance packet; budget as if required. - **Awards:** the PC designates Best Paper and the **Machtey Award** for best student paper from the accepted pool — recent Machtey citations (2024: the Ising-perceptron capacity paper; papers with all-student author teams) show the profile. If your author team's student status matters, confirm the packet's eligibility declaration is filled accurately; misdeclared status is unfixable after the program is printed. ## Working with IEEE production Expect the production pipeline of an IEEE Computer Society proceedings — specific class files, a compliance-checking step, and an electronic copyright form — with the 2026 specifics (template, page allowance, upload system) defined only by the acceptance packet (待核实). Two habits that prevent the classic failures: run the packet's compliance checks on day one rather than deadline day, because font-embedding and figure-format errors take iterations to clear; and keep the proceedings source a *generated projection* of your canonical source (a documented set of cut points and `\iffull` switches), never a hand-forked copy — hand forks are how the proceedings version acquires the typo the full version already fixed. ## Endgame sequence 1. Acceptance week: read the packet twice; diary the camera-ready date; file the IEEE form early (copyright questions take days, not hours). 2. Week 1: apply reviewer-prompted fixes to the canonical source; regenerate both documents from it. 3. Week 2: de-anonymization pass; funder-compliance check; consistency audit above; co-author sign-off on the exact PDFs. 4. Submission: upload proceedings files; post/refresh the full version so the identifier printed in the proceedings resolves *today*, not at the conference. 5. Before travel: talk rehearsed against a mixed-TCS audience; slides carry the arXiv/ECCC ID on the final frame. --- **Source:** [`brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills`](https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) → `FOCS-Skills/skills/focs-camera-ready/SKILL.md`