Jeff,
That's exactly what I was thinking. Glad you like the idea. Normally, I
think it's difficult for Boost users and authors to actually talk to each
other. Email is used mostly to solve problems, not for general discussion.
So I thought if we had a room with a speakerphone, it would be a great
opportunity to get people together, especially people who can't travel to
the conference. Sorry if my original proposal wasn't clear. Even if they
don't have questions, users could express their appreciation to the Boost
authors who have written these libraries.
See you at BoostCon,
Dave Jenkins
"Jeff Garland"
I think the 'scope of your proposal' wasn't clear to me in your first email. So, if I understand what you are saying you are thinking of having a little 'birds of a feather' session for each of attending boost authors to answer questions about their libraries.
If that's right, it sounds like an awesome idea to me. Obviously we are going to have a bunch of library authors running around at BoostCon, so it's a good time to do this. Maybe we would have these at some regular time like during lunch, breakfast, or after the main sessions are done for the day? Then you could have the pick of the rooms...
If I've got it right (please confirm), let me run it by the program committee...maybe we can help getting it organized a bit. We have a list of all the attendees...so that would help jumpstart which authors are there. And maybe if we get some firm times we can get them on the official schedule...
But how can authors avoid making their cell phone numbers public? That was the advantage of a conference room with a public telephone number. Any ideas?
Use your cell phone ;-) Seriously, though, I know we are going to find someone that knows how to solve this problem...
Jeff