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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSL
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 OOPSLA (Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications) is now part of SPLASH (Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity).
 
-The OOPSLA Steering Committee is a strict subset of the [SPLASH Steering Committee](/Conferences/SPLASH) and consists of the past three OOPSLA RC (co-)chairs and present and future RC (co-)chairs and has its own mailing list for discussing OOPSLA specific issues. The chair of the OOPSLA Steering Committee and SPLASH Steering Committee is normally the same person and is expected to have served as OOPSLA RC (co-)chair in the past.
+The OOPSLA Steering Committee is a strict subset of the [SPLASH Steering Committee](/Conferences/SPLASH) and consists of the past three OOPSLA RC (co-)chairs and present and future RC (co-)chairs and has its own mailing list for discussing OOPSLA specific issues. The SPLASH SC Chair is also a member of this committee and is the committee chair by default but can choose to delegate the chair position if desired.
 
 The scope of OOPSLA includes all aspects of programming languages and software engineering, broadly construed. Papers that address any aspect of software development are welcome, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, reuse, replacement, and retirement of software systems. Papers may address these topics in a variety of ways, including new tools (such as languages, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, code organization approaches, and management techniques), and new evaluations (such as formalisms and proofs, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys).
 
diff --git a/Conferences/SPLASH.md b/Conferences/SPLASH.md
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The SPLASH Steering Committee is constituted by the following members:
 
 *NB!* In 2026 the past three years are 2025, 2024, and 2023 and the co-located conferences include: SAS (while GPCE and SLE last co-located in 2023).
 
-The Chair of the Steering Committee is elected by the Steering Committee from among the members of the committee to serve a two-year term. The Chair of the Steering Committee normally would also serve as the chair of the OOPSLA Steering Committee which is a subcommittee of the SPLASH SC and thus is normally expected to have been an OOPSLA RC (co-)chair in the past. The outgoing chair serves an additional year on the committee past his or her term as chair to provide institutional memory.
+The Chair of the Steering Committee is elected by the Steering Committee from among the members of the committee to serve a two-year term. The Chair of the Steering Committee would normally also serve as the chair of the OOPSLA Steering Committee which is a subcommittee of the SPLASH SC. The outgoing chair serves an additional year on the committee past his or her term as chair to provide institutional memory.
 
 Steering Committee membership was expanded by adding members-at-large in 2020, with the intention of adding one member-at-large each subsequent year.  Members-at-large serve 4 year terms and are selected by the Steering Committee.