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BOB Conference 2023
"What happens when we use what's best for a change?"
https://bobkonf.de/2023/cfc.html
Berlin, Mar 17
Call for Contributions
Deadline: November 21, 2022
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You are actively engaged in advanced software engineering methods,
solve ambitious problem with software and are open to cutting-edge
innovation? Attend this conference, meet people that share your goals,
and get to know the best software tools and technologies available
today. We strive to offer a day full of new experiences and
impressions that you can use to immediately improve your daily life as
a software developer.
If you share our vision and want to contribute, submit a proposal for
a talk or tutorial!
NOTE: The conference fee will be waived for presenters. Travel
expenses will not be covered (for exceptions see "Speaker Grants").
Online or Onsite
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We expect we'll be able to hold BOB 2023 in Berlin. Note that we
intend to provide a safe environment for all participants. There will
be space outside to eat and chat. We may ask you to wear a mask
indoors when not presenting or eating, and may also ask you to take a
COVID test on-site before the event.
If an on-site BOB is not possible, we'll make BOB a successful online
event, like BOB 2021 and BOB 2022. Should BOB happen online, we will
likely ask for pre-recorded talks to make room for questions and
social interactions during the actual conference day. (Of course,
we'll provide assistance making those recordings.) Tutorials will
likely happen as a live-session.
Shepherding
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The program committee offers shepherding to all speakers. Shepherding
provides speakers assistance with preparing their
sessions. Specifically:
- advice on structure and presentation
- review of talk slides
- assistance with recording
- review of recording, if applicable
Speaker Grants
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BOB has Speaker Grants available to support speakers from groups
under-represented in technology. We specifically seek women speakers,
speakers of color, and speakers who are not able to attend the
conference for financial reasons.
Topics
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We are looking for talks about best-of-breed software technology, e.g.:
- functional programming
- persistent data structures and databases
- event-based modelling and architecture
- "fancy types" (dependent types, gradual typing, linear types, ...)
- formal methods for correctness and robustness
- abstractions for concurrency and parallelism
- metaprogramming
- probabilistic programming
- math and programming
- controlled side effects
- program synthesis
- next-generation IDEs
- effective abstractions for data analytics
- … everything really that isn’t mainstream, but you think should be
- … includeing rough ideas worth discussing.
Presenters should provide the audience with information that is
practically useful for software developers.
Challenges
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Furthermore, we seek contributions on successful approaches for
solving hard problems, for example:
- bias in machine-learning systems
- digital transformation in difficult settings
- accessibiltity
- systems with critical reliability requirements
- ecologically sustainable software development
We're especially interested in experience reports.
Other topics are also relevant, e.g.:
- introductory talks on technical background
- overviews of a given field
- demos and how-tos
Requirements
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We accept proposals for presentations of 45 minutes (40 minutes talk +
5 minutes questions), as well as 90 minute tutorials for
beginners. The language of presentation should be either English or
German.
Your proposal should include (in your presentation language of choice):
- An abstract of max. 1500 characters.
- A short bio/cv
- Contact information (including at least email address)
- A list of 3-5 concrete ideas of how your work can be applied in a developer's daily life
- additional material (websites, blogs, slides, videos of past presentations, …)
- Don't be confused: The system calls a submission event.
Organisation
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- Direct questions to konferenz at bobkonf dot de
- Proposal deadline: November 21, 2022
- Notification: December 5, 2022
- Program: December 12, 2022
Submit here:
https://pretalx.com/bob-2023/submit/
Program Committee
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(more information here: https://bobkonf.de/2023/programmkomitee.html)
- Matthias Fischmann, Wire
- Matthias Neubauer, SICK AG
- Nicole Rauch, Softwareentwicklung und Entwicklungscoaching
- Michael Sperber, Active Group
- Stefan Wehr, Hochschule Offenburg
Scientific Advisory Board
- Annette Bieniusa, TU Kaiserslautern
- Torsten Grust, Uni Tübingen
- Peter Thiemann, Uni Freiburg
Interesting. I’m trying to avoid flying as much as possible, so nice conferences in Western Europe are really cool. And I’ve always dreamed of visiting Berlin, so I don’t see how I could not apply 
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Cool. Btw, have you seen this- Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client | Hacker News
This is technically just a mercurial fork with some monorepo like features but the namedroppers would inevitably ask you
- how is pijul different from sapling
EDIT: End of the day I think what matters is whether a user is able to easily commit and traverse changesets and for that a good UI is very important, and sapling really seems nice from the blogpost, and something part of which can be an example for other projects.
It seems I was accepted to BOBKonf in the end 
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Might I suggest/request taking a while to familiarize yourself with magit/sapling web ui?
End of the day it’s the UI that matters (and what I believe you yourself said was the USP, not that things work well mathematically but that the end user has a much simpler mental model of things).
Magit (which also happens to be the most downloaded emacs package) really makes git painless. And sapling, while sadly I haven’t had too much time to take look at firsthand, also both seems to make things easy, and also has good reviews.
If you believe Git’s problem is the UI but the mental model is fine, then Pijul is probably not the best tools for your workflows. I’m fine with Git’s UI, actually.
Well UI comes from mental model. They’re not orthogonal.