Speakers

Call for Presentations

The Strange Loop 2009 call for presentations is now open. The Strange Loop conference brings together communities of corporate developers, startup developers and academia to examine a variety of languages and tools.

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Technical Tracks

The Nuts & Bolts and Bleeding Edge tracks will be selected to form a balanced technical program and will consist of 60 minute technical sessions.

The Nuts & Bolts track is intended to provide help for developers right now. Topics most likely to meet this criteria will involve Java, .NET, web development, or general software development techniques like agile methods, testing, etc. Presentations might cover language features, libraries, frameworks, techniques, experience reports, etc.

The Bleeding Edge track is intended to explore where the industry is moving in the next few years. Topics of particular interest for this track are alternative languages, functional programming, concurrency, and distributed systems although any topic will be considered.

1. Call opens: May 25th, 2009
2. Call ends: July 24th, 2009
3. Speakers notified: August 3rd, 2009
4. Conference date: October 23rd, 2009

Speaker Information

All Strange Loop speakers receive free admission to the conference. If speakers have already registered (as they must to submit talks for Strange Passions), then their money will be refunded.

We intend to provide an honorarium and possibly a travel bonus for technical speakers (only the Nuts&Bolts and Bleeding Edge tracks). However, this is entirely subject to sponsorship and registration levels and hard to predict for the first year of the Strange Loop conference. More details will be available when the sessions are selected.

For legal reasons, letters of introduction and visa support will not be provided for international speakers.

Submissions

Submissions should be emailed to strange.loop.stl@gmail.com with the following information:

1. Track - The intended track
2. Title - The title should have a hook to interest attendees. Since the conference is open to a variety of languages and technologies, keep in mind whether the context is obvious from the title.
3. Speaker - Please include the speaker’s name, email address, phone number, and a short bio (less than 100 words). The bio will be put on the web site and in any printed schedule and is usually written in the 3rd person.
4. Abstract - The abstract should describe the talk, both what it will contain and why you should attend. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words. Talks should focus on technical problems and technical solutions, not marketing.
5. A/V requirements - Standard equipment will include a video connection for a laptop, power supply, and a microphone. Please note any extra requirements (including computer audio).
6. Comments - If you have any extra comments about your talk, or why you would like to speak, add them here. These comments will remain private to the review committee.

Please submit no more than two talks per person. The number of speaking slots is limited and in fairness to the depth of the community, no more than one talk from any one person will be accepted.

Venue Information

The venue is a 1924 movie house. There is one main theater (seats 450) and two side theaters (seat 150). The stages in these theaters are designed for showing movies, not for speaking, so the environment may be somewhat unusual compared to other conferences.

The stages are reached only by stairs (if you have special accessibility needs please include that information in your submission comments). The stage itself is four feet deep and contains a row of spots at the front. The majority of the stage area is backed by the movie screen itself which will be showing your presentation. This setup may limit your freedom of movement somewhat. A podium or other item will be present to place a laptop.