[C++ Academia] Conference Proposal

[Jon Kalb]

Thank you all for introducing yourselves.

 

I chair the C++Now and CppCon conferences as well as the Silicon Valley Code Camp C++ Track. I also chair the Boost Steering Committee and am a founding board member of the C++ Alliance and I starting this mailing list and the website that hosts it.

 

I’m also a freelance onsite trainer for C++. This is the job at which I support myself.

 

I want to share with you why I started this mailing list. It might seem obvious that I want to facilitate discussion among academics interested in C++. That is true, but I have three-point agenda. I feel like the first point is a prerequisite to successfully achieving the second and third:

 

1.       Create a forum for academics interested in C++ to engage with each other

2.       Fund the development and distribution of a set of curriculum guides for use by instructors that are using C++ in colligate instruction

3.       Create an academic conference on C++

 

With the creation of https://cpp.ac and this list, I’m one down and the two most difficult ones to go.

 

Right now, I’d like to kick off discussion of the creation of an academic conference with a document that I’ve created here:

                https://docs.google.com/document/d/1POhpABMQe_2Odg9lKUt-LFce4DfXmrDMcE6UBPTXj_Y/edit?usp=sharing

 

I’m interested in hearing your questions and comment or if you’d be willing to participate or volunteer to help in this effort.

 

Thanks.

 

Jon

 

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