Call For Papers

CodeCon is the premier showcase of active hacker projects. It is an excellent opportunity for developers to demonstrate their work and keep abreast of what's going on in their community.

All presentations must include working demonstrations, ideally accompanied by source code. Presenters must be one of the active developers of the code in question. We emphasize that demonstrations be of *working* code.

CodeCon strongly encourages presenters from non-commercial and academic backgrounds to attend for the purposes of collaboration and the sharing of knowledge by providing free registration to workshop presenters and discounted registration to full-time students.

We hereby solicit papers and demonstrations.

• Papers and proposals due: December 15, 2003
• Authors notified: January 1, 2004

• community-based web sites - forums, weblogs, personals
• development tools - languages, debuggers, version control
• file sharing systems - swarming distribution, distributed search
• security products - mail encryption, intrusion detection, firewalls

Submission details:

Submissions are being accepted immediately. Acceptance dates are November 15, and December 15. After the first acceptance date, submissions will be either accepted, rejected, or deferred to the second acceptance date.

The conference language is English.

Ideally, demonstrations should be usable by attendees with 802.11b connected devices either via a web interface, or locally on Windows, UNIX-like, or MacOS platforms. Cross-platform applications are most desirable.

Our venue will be 21+.

If you have a specific day on which you would prefer to present, please advise us.

To submit, send mail to submissions@codecon.org including the following information:

• Project name
• url of project home page
• tagline - one sentence or less summing up what the project does
• names of presenter(s) and urls of their home pages, if they have any
• one-paragraph bios of presenters (optional)
• project history, no more than a few sentences
• what will be done in the project demo
• major achievement(s) so far
• claim(s) to fame, if any
• future plans

Program Committee:

• Bram Cohen
• Len Sassaman
• Jonathan Moore
• Jered Floyd
• Brandon Wiley
• Jeremy Bornstein

If your organization is interested in sponsoring CodeCon, we would love to hear from you. In particular, we are looking for sponsors for social meals and parties on any of the three days of the conference, as well as sponsors of the conference as a whole, prizes or awards for quality presentations, scholarships for qualified applicants, and assistance with transportation or accommodation for presenters with limited resources. If you might be interested in sponsoring any of these aspects, please contact the conference organizers at codecon-admin@codecon.org.

Press policy:

CodeCon strives to be a conference for developers, with strong audience participation. As such, we need to limit the number of complimentary passes for non-developer attendees. We ask that all press register as attendees this year, and pay the registration fee. Interview opportunities with the speakers will be arranged. If you are a member of the press and interested in covering CodeCon, please contact us early by sending email to press@codecon.org to secure a press badge.

Questions:

If you have questions about CodeCon, or would like to contact the organizers, please mail codecon-admin@codecon.org. Please note this address is only for questions and administrative requests, and not for workshop presentation submissions.