llvm announce - Aug 2011 - 2011 LLVM Developers' Meeting Announcement & Call for Speakers!

Fifth Annual LLVM Developers' Meeting
                           November 18, 2011
                                  San Jose, CA
 
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       2011 Developers’ Meeting Announcement
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The fifth annual LLVM Developers' Meeting will be held on November 18, 2011
in San Jose, California, USA. Details on the venue, registration, and other
logistics will be announced within two weeks.
 
As with previous meetings, this gathering serves as a forum for both developers
and users of LLVM to meet, learn how LLVM is used, and to exchange ideas about
LLVM and its potential applications.
 
Who should attend?
• Active developers and users of LLVM family of projects, including the
following:
                - LLVM Core
                - Clang
                - LLDB
• Anyone interested in using LLVM as part of a commercial, open-source, or
research project
• Compiler, programming language, and language runtime enthusiasts
• Those interested in applying compiler technology in novel and interesting ways
 
 
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                              Call for Speakers
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We are looking for speakers for this year's meeting. Topics should include
any of the LLVM family of projects or new uses of those projects. If you are
interested in presenting at this year's LLVM Developers' Meeting, please
submit your talk proposal to us by September 15, 2011 via the website:
http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/talk.php
 
There will be 3 classes of sessions
• Keynote
• Technical
• Birds-of-a-feather (BoF).
 
For examples from last year’s meeting, visit the following:
                http://llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/
 
Please note that presentation materials and videos for the technical sessions
will be posted on llvm.org after the conference.
 
In prior years companies have come forth to sponsor speakers in need of travel
assistance and likely will do so again. If you need assistance, please fill out
the form here:
http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/sponsor.php

Note, speakers that receive funding maybe required to present at the meeting and
may have additional requirements from their sponsor (i.e. writing a blog post,
etc).
 
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                                        Logistics
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Registration - Attendance to this year's meeting is complimentary but
registration is mandatory as space is limited. Please look for registration
information to come in the next two weeks.
 
Mailing List - Sign up for the official Developer Meeting mailing list to keep
informed of updates concerning the meeting:
 
           http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-devmeeting
 
Travel - For those traveling to the area to attend the meeting, there will be a
block of rooms at a local hotel in order to provide convenient access and
reduced rates to our attendees.  Details will be forthcoming in subsequent
announcements.  Please subscribe to the developer meeting mailing list (see
above) to receive such updates.
 
Sponsorship Requested - Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) and Apple will be
sponsoring the cost of this year’s meeting, but we are eager to find companies
to help cover travel expenses for speakers needing assistance. If your company
is interested, please contact dkipping at qualcomm.com.
 
 
About LLVM
 
The Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) is a collection of libraries and tools that
make it easy to build compilers, optimizers, Just-In-Time code generators, and
many other compiler-related programs. LLVM uses a single, language-independent
virtual instruction set both as an offline code representation (to communicate
code between compiler phases and to run-time systems) and as the compiler
internal representation (to analyze and transform programs). This persistent
code representation allows a common set of sophisticated compiler techniques to
be applied at compile-time, link-time, install-time, run- time, or
"idle-time" (between program runs).
 
The strengths of the LLVM infrastructure are its extremely simple design (which
makes it easy to understand and use), source-language independence, powerful
mid-level optimizer, automated compiler debugging support, extensibility, and
its stability and reliability.  LLVM is currently being used to host a wide
variety of academic research projects and commercial projects.
 
For more information, please visit:
http://llvm.org
 
 
About Clang
 
Clang, a subproject of LLVM, is a modular and reusable frontend for C-based
languages. It targets support for C, Objective-C, and C++.  Clang is mature and
fast, and supports a fully working LLVM-based compiler for C and Objective-C,
with C++ support underway.
 
Like the rest of LLVM, Clang consists of a collection of libraries, making it
versatile in its applications.  The goal of Clang is to be multipurpose,
allowing not only the creation of standalone compilers for C-based languages,
but also intelligent IDEs, refactoring tools, source to source translators,
static analysis tools, and countless others.  Other design goals of Clang
include 100% compatibility with GCC and a high quality of implementation that
makes Clang fast, scalable, and easy to customize and expand.
 
For more information, please visit:
http://clang.llvm.org
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