2024-07-12 –, Struct (1.4)
JuliaCon is growing and changing as we attract a larger and more diverse audience across academia, research organizations, and businesses. How do we currently organize JuliaCon and how can we grow to address all our attendees and our online community members? What do you want to see at future JuliaCons, and in Julia's general online presence. How do you volunteer or help out in those efforts? All that and more at the JuliaCon Organizers BoF
JuliaCon has taken many different forms over the years, from a small event with < 20 talks in 2014, to online events viewed by thousands, and finally the last two years of in-person conferences with well over 300 speakers / talks. The audience has also shifted over that time period, we see more and more attendees from businesses small and large, in addition to the often academic / research driven audience of traditionally associated with the conference. The first third of this BoF will be a peek behind the curtain of JuliaCon, the funding and committee structures, volunteering, etc. The rest of the BoF will be an open session about the future of JuliaCon as the conference grows to handle a larger and more diverse audience. The organizing committee is also responsible for much of the official online content on Julia Language channels, so we'll discuss the future of those channels, and how to use them to grow the reach of the language.
Finally, time permitting, we'll discuss how to foster local groups which can eventually play host to a JuliaCon or JuliaCon Local.
Currently I am an SM at the MIT JuliaLab, where I focus on sparse libraries and compilers.