On behalf of the JuliaCon 2015 Program Committee, it is my pleasure to announce that the *Call for Participation **for JuliaCon 2015 is now open.*
Venue: MIT Ray & Maria Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. *Call for Participation closes: April 8, 2015, 11:59pm EDT* *Estimated notification: April 18, 2015* *JuliaCon dates: June 24 - 28, 2015* JuliaCon proposal submission form: link <http://goo.gl/forms/NH6Kkr6n9Y>. JuliaCon website: juliacon.org (to be updated shortly) JuliaCon program committee email: julia...@googlegroups.com. JuliaCon 2015 is looking for Julia users like you to speak! We’re looking for talks and workshops about using Julia, whether that means writing a Julia package or doing your research using Julia. *Who will decide the program?* The JuliaCon program committee is composed of entirely of volunteer organizers and can be reached at julia...@googlegroups.com with any questions or comments. Please limit your submissions to no more than 3 proposals. If you’re having trouble deciding on a topic, please send us an email; we’re happy to help. *What kinds of presentations are we looking for?* We are looking for speakers for three types of presentations: regular talks, lightning talks, and workshops. The types of presentations differ in the amount of time allotted. - Each regular talk will receive *35 minutes* of presentation time and *5 minutes* for Q&A. - Each lightning talk will receive *8 minutes* to speak and *2 minutes* for Q&A. - Workshops are larger blocks of time which are useful for tutorials, in-depth presentations of deeper ideas, and hackathons. Each workshop slot will be given *up to 3 hours*. Please note in your proposal how much time your workshop will require. Speakers are expected to bring their own laptops to connect to the projectors. *What will the audience be like?* The audience will be users of Julia, and come from widely varying backgrounds and interests. They range from professional programmers who enjoy new languages to professors who use Julia as a tool in their work. While many Julia users are very comfortable with math and statistics, the only thing you can consistently assume is that they’ve written some Julia code before. JuliaCon 2015 will also feature a tutorial for new users. *What topics are you looking for?* As long as it’s about Julia or using Julia, it’s on topic. We’re looking for talks about work that you’ve already done or have made significant progress on. Demos are welcome. Last year, there were many talks about specific Julia packages. This is a great way to advertise a package you wrote (or love to use). We want to know what your package does, how it does it, and how did using Julia affect your package, for better or worse. See the video recordings from last year at juliacon.org to get a feel for what people presented and what the audience expected. If you want to speak but are having trouble coming up with a topic, the best topics are centered on your experience using Julia. Besides creating or maintaining a package, your experience teaching Julia or using Julia in your work or research would also be interesting. We are specifically interested in your experience with Julia in a classroom setting. If you’re looking for presentation ideas, consider talks about: compilers, runtimes, parallelism, experiences teaching Julia, scientific computing, and/or visualization. *Do you have any tips for filling out the submission form?* *Biography:* This will be listed on the website when the speakers are announced. This is a good place to mention if you’ve created a Julia package or maintain one. *Title:* Make your title reflect your topic (rather than being clever) Please reserve “Julia In Production” style titles for experience reports of using Julia at companies, not research. (customer-facing, revenue-generating, etc). However, we still do want to hear about using Julia for research, just don’t use the word production in the title. *Abstract:* The abstract is a summary of what you wanted to do, what you ended up doing, the results you obtained, and what you learned from the experience. This will be listed on the website if your talk is accepted. *Special notes:* Please note in your submission if: - You do not want your presentation recorded and posted on the JuliaCon website. We plan to record all presentations by default. - You need additional resources beyond the standard video projector and laser pointer. (We expect speakers to bring their own laptops unless you ask for one.) - You require travel funding to attend JuliaCon. *Support for Speakers* Travel funding and conference fee waivers may be available for a limited group of speakers. Please note in your submission if you will be unable to attend JuliaCon without funding. We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you at JuliaCon 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Yours faithfully, Jiahao Chen JuliaCon 2015 Program Chair Staff Research Scientist MIT CSAIL
