BoostCon 2011: Early Registration Deadline Approaching

The premier annual US C++ event, BoostCon, runs May 15-20, 2011 in beautiful Aspen, Colorado!

Hans Boehm, the father of C++ garbage collection and the C++0x threading model, headlines the fifth annual Boost Conference, with his keynote, “Threads and Shared Variables in C++0x.” Other sessions about which which I’m personally excited:

Christopher Kohlhoff, the author of ASIO, is coming all the way from the land down under to present his library, slated for TR2. Also IPv6, and more!
Bartosz Milewski is going to talk about the relationship between C++ template metaprogramming and Haskell.
Matt Calabrese presents his library implementation of the postponed C++0x concepts features. Yes, seriously.

Further topics include Unicode, lockfree programming, Boost.Units, compile-time graphs, database mapping, high-performance numerics, and of course, Proto, plus too many other good things to list.

I’ll be running a daily infrastructure workshop where we’ll develop the frameworks for documentation, web services, build, test, packaging and distribution of C++ components, including Ryppl.

As usual, the best things about BoostCon are the people and the work that gets done between sessions. The pictures give a pretty good sense of it, but there’s truly no substitute for being there.

If you haven’t registered yet, you can fix that now. Your chance to save $100 expires on Wednesday.

See you there!