[Boost-users] [BoostCon 2010] Call for Participation

Subject: [Boost-users] [BoostCon 2010] Call for Participation
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-01 23:11:58

Please distribute!

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4th Annual Boost Conference 2010
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Aspen CO, USA, May 4-10, 2010, www.boostcon.com

Call for participation
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We invite you to submit session proposals to the 4th Annual Boost 
Conference: BoostCon 2010 (Aspen CO, USA, May 10-14, 2010).

Traditionally the main face-to-face event for all things Boost 
(www.boost.org), BoostCon 2010 will present leading speakers from 
the whole C++ community. From using the Boost libraries to writing 
and maintaining them, from evangelizing to deploying Boost within 
your organization, from infrastructure and process to vision and 
mission, and the new C++ Standard, BoostCon brings together the 
sessions, the colleagues, and the inspiration to support your work 
with C++ and Boost in particular for the next year.

To reflect the breadth of the Boost community, the conference 
includes sessions aimed at two constituencies: Boost end-users 
and hard-core Boost library and tool developers. The program 
fosters interaction and engagement within and across those two 
groups, with an emphasis on hands-on, participatory sessions.

Session topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the 
following:

* General tutorial sessions introducing one or more Boost 
  libraries
* In-depth sessions on using specific Boost libraries
* Case studies on using Boost
* Experts panels
* Advanced sessions on implementation techniques used within 
  Boost libraries
* C++0x and how it will change life for users and library writers
* Development workshops to extend or enhance existing Boost 
  libraries
* Workshops on design process
* Infrastructure workshops such as Build tools, Website, Testing
* Concepts and Generic Programming
* Hardware and infrastructure presentations focused on how 
  libraries can make better use of the technology
* Other topics likely to be of great interest to Boost users and 
  developers

Interactive and collaborative sessions are encouraged, as this is 
the nature of both the on-line Boost community and the style of 
learning and participation that has proven most successful at 
such events. Sessions can be tutorial based, with an emphasis on 
interaction and participant involvement, or workshop based, 
whether hands-on programming or paper-based, discussion-driven 
collaborative work.

Session formats
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Presentations 
Presentations focus on a practitioner's ideas and experience with 
anything relevant to Boost and Boost users.

Panels 
Panels feature three or four people presenting their ideas and 
experiences relating to Boost's relevant, controversial, emerging, 
or unresolved issues. Panels may be conducted in several ways, 
such as comparative, analytic, or historic.

Tutorials 
Tutorials are sessions at which instructors teach conference 
participants specific Boost-relevant skills.

Workshops 
Workshops provide an active arena for advancements in Boost-
relevant topics. Workshops provide the opportunity for experienced 
practitioners to develop new ideas about a topic of common interest 
and experience.

Author's Corner Presentations 
These were introduced at BoostCon 2008, and were a great success. 
They are short (30 minute) sessions, focusing on tips on usage and 
design. In addition, we're looking to uncover the hidden design gems 
in Boost libraries. 

Tool Vendors Presentations
We actively encourage tool vendors and ISP's to submit proposals 
for a special Tool Vendors Session Track aimed at products related 
to Boost and C++ (compilers, libraries, tools, etc.).

Other formats may also be of interest. Don't hold back a proposal 
just because it doesn't fit into a pigeonhole.

Submitting a proposal
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Standard Sessions are 90 minutes. You may submit a proposal for 
fractions or multiples of 90-minutes. Fractional proposals will be 
grouped into 90 minute sessions covering related topics. 
Longer sessions, such as tutorials and classes, will be assigned 90 
minute, three hour (i.e. half day), or six hour (i.e. full day) time 
slots.

Please include:

* The working title.
* Type of session: presentation, panel, tutorial, workshop, authors 
  corner, vendor track, other.
* A paragraph or two describing the topic covered, suitable for the 
  conference web site.
* Proposed length: 10-20 minute short talks, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, 
  half day, full day.
* Alternate lengths, if you are willing to make adjustments: 10-20 
  minute short-talks, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, half-day, full day.
* Audience: users, developers, both.
* Level: basic, intermediate, advanced.
* A biography, suitable for the conference web site.
* Your contact information (will not be made public).

Submission details
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All submissions have to be done through the EasyChair conference 
management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=boostcon10. 
If you have not already registered at EasyChair, you will need to 
do so in order to submit your proposal.

All submissions will go through a peer review process.
Authors are invited (but are not required) to submit PDF versions of 
full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format 
(see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The 
full papers are not required unless you want them published in the 
proceedings.

All accepted proposals will be made available in the Association for 
Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library (approval pending). Best 
papers, after further reviews, will be considered to be book 
chapters or journal articles in a renowned journal. 

The session materials go on the BoostCon website and will be 
available to attendees.

For general information on the BoostCon 2010 paper submission or 
the scope of technical papers solicited, please refer to the 
conference website at www.boostcon.com. For any other questions 
about the submission process or paper format, please contact the 
Program Committee at boostcon10_at_easychair.com. If you have any 
technical problems with EasyChair, please contact EasyChair for 
help.

Note: Presenters must agree to grant a non-exclusive perpetual 
license to publish submitted materials, either electronically or 
in print, in any media related to BoostCon.

Important dates
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Proposal submissions due: Dec 10th, 2009. 
Proposals decisions sent (tentative program available): Jan 15th, 2010.
Fully scheduled program available: Feb 5th, 2010.
Session materials due: Apr 15th, 2010. 

Hartmut Kaiser, email: hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden] (Program Committee Chair) 
David Abrahams, email: dave_at_[hidden] (Conference Chair)

On behalf of the conference organizers