Re: [boost] Toronto Boost Meeting

From: Milutin Jovanovic (miki_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-31 09:45:13

I plan to attend as well. This is my first meeting of the kind, so I will be
more in the observer role.

Cheers,

Miki Jovanovic.

From: "Beman Dawes" <beman_at_[hidden]>
> Dietmar Kuehl wrote:
>
>  >Boost has grown to significant size and different topics of interest
>  >have emerged. Since our time and possibly also the participation at
>  >the Toronto Boost Meeting is limited I propose that we decide at least
>  >on a tentative agenda for this meeting. The agenda might attract people
>  >not participating in C++ standardization to participate in the
> Boost >discussions. Those who cannot attend the meeting might be
interested
> in >communicating their position on the discussed topics prior to the
> meeting >to be taken into account by the participants.
>  >
>  >Basically, I fear that we will make less progress if we stick to the
>  >more or less informal mode used at the Kona and Tokyo meetings:
> Positions >had to be formulated more less on the fly without prepration
> time to >identify eg. the crucial differences between the various hash
> table >implementations. I have some hope that some of the more
> controversial >discussions can be brought to some agreement if we have
some
> form of >potentially competing proposals for the items under discussion
> (this
>  >might apply to hash tables as well as to the multi threading area).
>  >
>  >The topics to be discussed would probably depend strongly on the people
>  >participating. For example, I would consider it pretty pointless to
>  >discuss graph issues if Jeremy does not participate. Thus, it might help
>  >if we could somehow put together a list of people who are planning
> to >attend the Boost Meeting.
>  >
>  >Just a few thought...
>
> Thanks, Dietmar!
>
> The Boost meeting will be on Sunday, October 22, at 1 PM.  Novotel Toronto
> Centre Hotel in downtown Toronto.  We have to vacate the room around 5:30
> PM.
>
> I've heard from these Boost people who plan to attend:
>    Dave Abrahams
>    Beman Dawes
>    Howard Hinnant
>    Dietmar Kuehl
>    Jens Maurer
>    Jeremy Siek
> I've heard from these Boost people who do not plan to attend:
>    Greg Colvin
>    William Kempf
>
> Yes, a more formal agenda with planned topics would be helpful.  Here are
> some possible topics:
>
> *  Design of the Boost Threading/Concurrency library. Format: Progress
> reports from several participants followed by discussion.
>
> *  Applying Generative Programming to smart pointers.  Beman Dawes.
Format:
> Progress report followed by discussion.
>
> If anyone else has topics they would like to present, let me know.
>
> I don't think it is realistic to ask people to prepare polished
> presentations.  But perhaps people who have already submitted documents
> could present them briefly.
>
> Further background: The goal of the C++ committee in Toronto will be to
> finish work on a Technical Corrigenda (TC).  Library extension proposals
> are not yet in order, but the library working group (LWG) will briefly
> discuss the process to be used for extension proposals.  Best guess right
> now is that starting with the meeting after Toronto (Copenhagen, Denmark,
> 29 April 2001) the LWG will devote some portion of each meeting to
> extension proposals.
>
> --Beman