The premier annual US C++ event, BoostCon, runs May 15-20, 2011 in beautiful Aspen, Colorado! See http://boostcon.boost.org for details. Hans Boehm, the father of C++ garbage collection and the C++0x threading model, headlines the fifth annual Boost Conference, with his keynote, "Threads and Shared Variables in C++0x." Other sessions about which which I'm personally excited: * Christopher Kohlhoff, the author of ASIO, is coming all the way from the "land down under" to present his library, slated for TR2. Also IPv6, and more! * Bartosz Milewski is going to talk about the relationship between C++ template metaprogramming and Haskell * Matt Calabrese presents his library implementation of the postponed C++0x concepts features Further topics include Unicode, lockfree programming, Boost.Units, compile-time graphs, database mapping, high-performance numerics, and... too many other good things to list. I'll be running a daily infrastructure workshop where we'll develop the frameworks for documentation, web services, build, test, packaging and distribution of C++ components, including ryppl. As usual, the best things about BoostCon are the people and the work that gets done between sessions. The pictures at http://boostcon.boost.org/photos/ give a pretty good sense of it, but there's truly no substitute for being there. If you haven't registered yet, fix that :-) at http://boostcon.boost.org/registration/. Your chance to save $100 expires on Wednesday. See you there! -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com