[Chapel-education] Call for Chapel Lightning Talks for SC11 BOF

[Brad C. <br...@cr...>]

Hi Chapel community --

We've had a Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) session accepted for SC11 in Seattle 
entitled "Chapel Lightning Talks".  If you are doing Chapel-related work 
that you would like to highlight at SC11, please consider proposing a talk 
for this session (scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th, from 12:15-1:15 
-- the official program description follows at the end of this mail).

Our goal for the session is to generate increased interest in Chapel by 
highlighting related activities from the broader community: research 
collaborations, use of Chapel in education, code studies, supporting 
technologies, etc.

We chose the lightning talk format in order to cover a broad spectrum of 
activities and to keep the session quick and lively.  To that end, we 
anticipate having ~6 talks @ 5 minutes each as the core of the session and 
will be striving to select engaging topics and speakers.  We'll start with 
a brief overview of the Chapel project to provide context for the talks 
and will wrap up with a Q&A session.

To propose a talk, please send the following to cha...@cr...:

* title

* a paragraph summarizing what you'd cover in 5 minutes

* speaker bio

* (optional, but recommended) sample slides from previous talks
   demonstrating that you can create engaging slides; or that you've
   presented a short, sharp talk before.  (Note that these can be from any
   technical talk or lecture; they don't need to be related to your
   proposed topic at all).

Proposals should be sent to us by Septmeber 30th.  We'll plan on 
announcing the speaker lineup by mid-October to give everyone a month to 
prepare (because we all know how long it takes to make a smashing 5-minute 
talk :).

Please note that in order to participate in the BoF, you'll need to be 
registered for SC11 and that we will not be providing funding for travel 
or registration.

We're looking forward to this BOF -- hope you'll submit something and/or 
join us!

-Brad (on behalf of the Chapel team)

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Chapel Lightning Talks

Are you a scientist wondering what it might be like to use a
high-level language for your research programming?  Are you an
educator looking for better ways to teach parallel programming?  Are
you a language geek who wants to stay on top of new developments?
Have you ever wanted to know more about the hype surrounding Chapel?

Then this is the BOF for you!

In this BOF, we will hear "lightning talks" on community activities
involving Chapel, a new programming language being developed under the
DARPA High Productivity Computer Systems Program (HPCS).  We will
begin the BOF with a brief overview of the Chapel project.  Following
this, we will turn the stage over to our users and collaborators.
There will be a series of curated five minute talks from the broad
Chapel community -- HPC programmers, educators, Chapel tinkerers,
developers, etc.  We will wrap up the BOF with Q&A and discussion
involving all participants and audience members.