[Haskell-cafe] Reminder: Call for Presentations: CUFP 2017, September 7-9, Oxford, UK

[Alex Lang]

This is just a reminder that there are 3 weeks until the deadline for CUFP
2017 submissions. I'll be at Compose conference today if anybody wants to
ask me any questions. My badge reads "Alexandre Lang".

The CFP and the form for submitting presentations proposals can be
found at: http://cufp.org/2017/call-for-presentations.html

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> 2017 Call for Presentations
>
> Workshop for Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2017
> Sponsored by SIGPLAN
> CUFP 2017
> Co-located with ICFP 2017
> Oxford, UK
> September 7-9
> Talk Proposal Submission Deadline: 9 June 2017
>
> The annual CUFP event is a place where people can see how others are
> using functional programming to solve real world problems; where
> practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users
> can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where
> one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional
> programming to work.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Giving a CUFP Talk
>
> If you have experience using functional languages in a practical
> setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the event.
> We're looking for two kinds of talks:
>
> Retrospective reports are typically 25 minutes long. Now that CUFP has
> run for more than a decade, we intend to invite past speakers to share
> what they’ve learned after a decade spent as commercial users of
> functional programming. We will favour experience reports that include
> technical content.
>
> Technical talks are also 25 minutes long, and should focus on teaching
> the audience something about a particular technique or methodology, from
> the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These
> talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional
> concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design
> recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While
> these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be
> accessible to a broad range of programmers.
>
> We strongly encourage submissions from people in communities that are
> underrepresented in functional programming, including but not limited to
> women; people of color; people in gender, sexual and romantic
> minorities; people with disabilities; people residing in Asia, Africa,
> or Latin America; and people who have never presented at a conference
> before. We recognize that inclusion is an important part of our ission
> to promote functional programming. So that CUFP can be a safe
> environment in which participants openly exchange ideas, we abide by the
> SIGPLAN Conference Anti-Harassment Policy:
>
>     http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Anti-harassment
>
> If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do
> so, please submit your presentation before 09 June 2017 via the CUFP
> 2017 Presentation Submission Form:
>
>     https://goo.gl/forms/KPloANxHHwdiaoVj2
>
> You do not need to submit a paper, just a short proposal for your talk.
> There will be a short scribe's report of the presentations and
> discussions but not of the details of individual talks, as the meeting
> is intended to be more of a discussion forum than a technical
> interchange.
>
> Nevertheless, presentations will be recorded and presenters will be
> expected to sign an ACM copyright release form.
>
> Note that we will need presenters to register for the CUFP workshop and
> travel to Oxford at their own expense. There are some funds available to
> would-be presenters who require assistance in this respect.
>
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>
> Program Committee
>
>     Alex Lang (Tsuru Capital), co-chair
>     Rachel Reese (Mulberry Labs), co-chair
>     Garrett Smith (Guild AI)
>     Danielle Sucher (Jane Street)
>     Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue)
>     Yukitoshi Suzuki (Ziosoft)
>     Evelina Gabasova (University of Cambridge)
>     Brian Mitchell (Jet.com)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> More information
>
> For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from
> previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at http://cufp.org. Note
> that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for the
> event. Acceptance and rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th.
> Guidance on giving a great CUFP talk
>
> Focus on the interesting bits: Think about what will distinguish your
> talk, and what will engage the audience, and focus there. There are a
> number of places to look for those interesting bits.
>
> Setting: FP is pretty well-established in some areas, including formal
> verification, financial processing, and server-side web services. An
> unusual setting can be a source of interest. If you're deploying
> FP-based mobile UIs or building servers on oil rigs, then the challenges
> of that scenario are worth focusing on. Did FP help or hinder in
> adapting to the setting?
>
> Technology: The CUFP audience is hungry to learn about how FP techniques
> work in practice. What design patterns have you applied, and to what
> areas? Did you use functional reactive programming for user interfaces,
> or DSLs for playing chess, or fault-tolerant actors for large-scale
> geological data processing? Teach us something about the techniques you
> used, and why we should consider using them ourselves.
>
> Getting things done: How did you deal with large-scale software
> development in the absence of pre-existing support tools that are often
> expected in larger commercial environments (IDEs, coverage tools,
> debuggers, profilers) and without larger, proven bodies of libraries?
> Did you hit any brick walls that required support from the community?
>
> Don't just be a cheerleader: It's easy to write a rah-rah talk about how
> well FP worked for you, but CUFP is more interesting when the talks also
> cover what doesn't work. Even when the results were all great, you
> should spend more time on the challenges along the way than on the parts
> that went smoothly.
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