Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2010

Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End

Call for Presentations

Sponsored by SIGPLAN
Co-located with ICFP 2010

1-2 October 2010
Baltimore (MD), USA

Presentation proposals due 23 May 2010
http://cufp.galois.com/

Giving a CUFP Talk

If you have experience using functional languages in a practical setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the workshop. We're looking for two kinds of talks:

Experience reports are typically 25 minutes long, and aim to inform participants about how functional programming plays out in real-world applications, focusing especially on lessons learned and insights gained. Experience reports don't need to be highly technical; reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering aspects are, if anything, more important. You do not need to submit a paper!

Technical talks are expected to be 30-45 minutes long, and should focus on teaching the audience something about a technical technique or methodology, from the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be accessible to a broad range of functional programmers.

If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, send an e-mail to francesco(at)erlang-consulting(dot)com or yminsky(at)janestreet(dot)com by 23 May 2010 with a short description of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long and include a short biography of the speaker.

The outcome of your proposal will be sent to you no later than the 15th of June. Note that presenters, like other attendees, need to register for the event. Presentations will be video taped and those presenters who want their video released will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form.

There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange.

22 February 2010