Timeline

Proposals due As soon as possible. Proposals will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.

Proposals acceptances sent As soon as accepted.

Session materials due April 15, 2008. The session material go on the BoostCon CD handed out to attendees.

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's 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.

Author's Corner Presentations focus on tips on usage and design. In addition, we're looking to uncover the hidden design gems hidden in boost libraries -- see below for more.

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 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.

Author's corner presentations

Based on user feedback from last year, we'd like to encourage Boost library authors to do short sessions (typically 30 minutes) providing an overview of their libraries, tips on usage and design. In particular, we're looking to uncover the hidden design gems that underlie so many boost libraries. Standard outline for a presentation is as follows -- feel free to deviate as needed.

• Library Purpose / Motivations
• Library Genesis & History
  • why you developed it
  • when it was accepted
  • how it has evolved
• Library Concepts
• Library Usage Overviews and Tips
• Library Design Decisions / Design Gems
• Question / Answer

Submitting a proposal

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/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 program AT boostcon.com, with a subject that begins “BoostCon Proposal:”

Financial Details

Like Boost itself, BoostCon is strictly non-profit. Conference organizers are not paid for their time. Any surplus money will be rolled over into the succeeding year BoostCon budget.

BoostCon provides free admission for all 90 minute and longer session presenters. This year we also hope to have enough revenue to pay presenters of longer sessions a small honorarium.