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2011 Call for Participation

rayfix — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:46:04 +0000

The Call for Sessions for BoostCon 2011 has been released, and deadlines for submission are fast approaching.

Don’t miss the coolest C++ event of the year. Get your proposals submitted ASAP.

Proposal submissions due: Feb 10th, 2011.
Proposals decisions sent (tentative program available): Mar 1st, 2011.
Fully scheduled program available: Mar 15th, 2011.
Session materials due: Apr 15th, 2011.

BoostCon 2010 Trip Report

rayfix — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:47 +0000

BoostCon presenter Dean Michael Berris (Techniques in Flexible Header-Only C++ Network Library Implementations) shares his trip report from the 2010 BoostCon including comments on sessions and his impressions of the community.

Slides from Dean’s session are here.

2011 Hotel Discounts, If You Act Fast!

rayfix — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:33 +0000

The Aspen Meadows is offering a $20/night discount for any Boost participant who books on or before Friday May 21 2010.

Because BoostCon has been an excellent regular customer, the Aspen Meadows is offering a $20/night discount for any Boost participant who books on or before this Friday, May 21 2010. After taxes, etc., that’s more than a $100 savings. Follow this link to make your reservation now.

2010 Keynote: Maurice Herlihy, Transactional Memory Today

rayfix — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:26 +0000

In the race to find a parallel programming model that is both scalable to many cores and comprehensible to many mortals, “Transactional Memory” is a leading contender. Moreover, it can be done in software, which means there are library-based approaches! Thus, at BoostCon this year we have a strong track focusing on this technological frontier, and as a foundation, our keynote speaker is one of the pioneers. Maurice Herlihy, winner of the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing and co-winner of the 2004 Goedel Prize, coined the term “Transactional Memory” in a 1993 paper that won the ISCA Influential Paper award in 2008. This is not one you’ll want to miss!

Hotel Now Accepting Reservations

rayfix — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:56 +0000

The Aspen Meadows is now accepting room reservations for BoostCon’10. Register early and ensure you’ll stay at the conference site!

In past years, when we didn’t book rooms early enough they were snapped up by other visitors to Aspen, which meant that a substantial number of participants had to stay off-site and take a shuttle to get to the conference. Especially in such a small conference, the community experience is always much stronger if everyone can stay together and walk to the conference rooms, and the other options tend to be much further from the conference site. Head on over to the hotel reservations page and make your reservation now.

Find us on Facebook!

rayfix — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:55 +0000

There’s now a Facebook group for BoostCon attendees past, present and future follow this link to join.

Iterators Must Go

rayfix — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:18 +0000

The 2009 Keynote from Andrei Alexandrescu! Andrei Alexandrescu, the well known author of books and articles about good program design and subtle C++ issues, will deliver the keynote to this year’s BoostCon. The title of his talk is “Iterators Must … Continue reading →

Hotel Now Accepting Reservations

rayfix — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:13 +0000

The Aspen Meadows is now accepting reservations for BoostCon’09. Register early and ensure you’ll stay at the conference site!

Last year, a substantial number of participants had to stay off-site and take a shuttle to get to the conference and associated events. Especially in such a small conference, the community experience is always much stronger if everyone can stay together, and the other options tend to be much further from the conference site. Head on over to our hotel reservations page and make your reservation now.
Why You Really Need to Book Now

When reserving a room block at a hotel one must agree in advance to pay for any reserved room-nights that aren’t eventually taken by your group. That’s known as an attrition charge, and it’s a standard practice. Because of BoostCon’s limited capital resources—we don’t have a fund that would allow us to cover a large room block if something catastrophic happened and the conference was cancelled—we have never been able to reserve more than a handful of rooms.

As a result, other groups who want to reserve a room block and can guarantee payment of the attrition charge will be able to reserve rooms and prevent you from getting a reservation. Every year so far, such a group has come along before all Boosters got rooms. We intend to build up a capital fund so that won’t be a problem in the future, but for now, your best defense against having to stay off-site is to reserve your room early.

Keynote '09: Andrei Alexandrescu

rayfix — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:52 +0000

We’re very lucky to have Andrei Alexandrescu as our keynote speaker this year!

We don’t know what he’ll be speaking about yet (expect to find out by the end of January), but from past experience with his talks, we know it will be hard-core but approachable, fascinating and especially entertaining. See Andrei’s Homepage for more information about him and his work.

Bjarne Stroustrup to Deliver 2008 Keynote

rayfix — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:50 +0000

Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, will deliver the BoostCon 2008 keynote address. His talk, “A C++ libraries wish list,” focuses on the real needs he hears about, and design criteria for good libraries, with numerous examples.