Boost Conference 2007: Call for Sessions

The first annual Boost conference will take place in Aspen, Colorado, May 14-18, 2007.

This inaugural Boost conference promises to be the main face-to-face venue for all things Boost, from using libraries to writing them, from evangelizing Boost to deployment within your organization, from infrastructure and process to vision and mission, and from TR1 to TR2. Given the range and interests of the participants, the event is going to be intense and in-depth.

BoostCon 2007 is looking for session presenters. We invite you to propose a session.

More BoostCon 2007 information is available on the Boost web site.

Session formats
Session topics
Submitting a proposal
Timeline
Other arrangements

Session formats

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

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

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

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.

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

Session topics

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 libraries
• Case studies on using Boost
• Experts panels
• Advanced sessions on implementation techniques used within Boost libraries
• TR1 (and TR2)
• Development workshops to extend or enhance existing Boost libraries
• Workshops on design process
• Infrastructure workshops
  • Build tools
  • Website
  • Testing
• C++0x and how it will change life for users and library writers
• Concepts and Generic Programming
• 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 online 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.

Submitting a proposal

Tentative scheduling plans are for 90 minute sessions. 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/lightning-talk/other
• A paragraph or two describing the topic covered, suitable for the conference web site
• Proposed length: 10-20 minute lightning-talks, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, half-day, full day
• Alternate lengths, if you are willing to made adjustments: 10-20 minute lightning-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)

Please submit via email to boostcon-program@lists.boost-consulting.com, with a subject that begins "BoostCon proposal"

Revised: 4 December 2006

© Copyright David Abrahams and Beman Dawes 2006

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)