Preparations are underway for the ACCU 2014 conference, to be held April 8-12, 2014 somewhere in the U.K. The conference has historically had strong C++ representation, and this year features a keynote by Howard Hinnant, longtime ISO C++ participant and former Library Working Group chair, and now a principal developer on Clang's libc++ implementation of the ISO C++ standard library. It also includes sessions on other languages and environments besides C++.

The conference has issued a call for papers which will close on Monday, November 5. From the call:

We have a long tradition of high quality sessions covering many aspects of software development, from programming languages (e.g., Java, Javascript, C#, Clojure, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, etc.), and technologies (libraries, frameworks, databases, etc.) to subjects about the wider development environment such as testing, architecture and design, development process, analysis, patterns, project management, and softer aspects such as team building, communication and leadership.

Sessions are usually tutorial-based, presentations of case studies, or interactive workshops, but we are always open to novel formats.

Pre-conference workshops are all day. Main conference sessions are 90 minutes. There are also a few 45 minutes sessions (reserved for less experienced speakers).

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The Call for Papers lasts 5 weeks and will close on Monday 5th November 2013. Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

Full conference schedule will be announced 1st Jan 2014.

See the call for details on how to submit a proposed session.