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[Timothy Janke]

I live in Silicon Valley, and I volunteer to help with the conference.  In 
whatever capacity.

Cheers,
Tim Janke


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Today's Topics:

   1. Idea for a GCC conference (Bradley M. Kuhn)
   2. Re: Idea for a GCC conference (Masayuki Ida)
   3. Re: template for the GCC conference (Masayuki Ida)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:28:36 -0400
From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: Masayuki Ida <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: Idea for a GCC conference
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Masayuki Ida, a Japanese professor who works closely with the FSF, would
like to organize a conference focusing on GCC.  As you on this list know,
there is a great deal of interest in the compiler, particularly in the
embedded community.  It is certainly an important and large enough project
that it warrants its own conference.

Professor Ida feels that the excitement in Japan about GCC is strong, and
that he can draw Japanese developers to attend a conference if it is held
on the West Coast of the USA.  Such a location isn't particularly friendly
to our European colleagues, but any location is going to be inherently
biased no matter where we pick.

A Silicon Valley location will get relative ease of travel most of the USA
and Canada, along with reasonable travel from most of Asia. Perhaps if the
conference is successful, we could begin holding it annually and move it
around the world.

We figured that about one year to plan the conference is realistic; trying
to move any more quickly would likely result in a less than optimal
outcome.  FSF doesn't have a lot of resources to put into the conference,
but we have pledged ancillary support where we can.  (For example, we've
committed to publishing the proceedings).

Also, I have opened a dialogue with USENIX, since they are experts at
running conferences.  I have received an email from Ellie Young, their
Executive Director, and I hope collaboration with USENIX pans out.  She
will be discussing the idea this week at the USENIX Annual Technical
Conference with her colleagues.  (I couldn't make USENIX this year, but
for those of you that are attending and would like to see such a
conference, be sure to mention that to Ellie if you see her!)


Of course, we can't pull this off without the full support of the GCC
community; your interest will make or break the conference.  We'd love to
hear your ideas, and even better, we'd love to hear from volunteers,
particularly those in Silicon Valley, who want to put in some hours to
pull this off.

I hope you'll send us your comments, and some offers for help.  Please
send comments back to the GCC Conference Discussion list,
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Masayuki Ida <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: Idea for a GCC conference

 >>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:28:36 -0400
 >>From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden>

Thank you Bkuhn,

 >>Masayuki Ida, a Japanese professor who works closely with the FSF, would
 >>like to organize a conference focusing on GCC.  As you on this list know,
 >>there is a great deal of interest in the compiler, particularly in the
 >>embedded community.  It is certainly an important and large enough project
 >>that it warrants its own conference.

I am not an expert of GCC. But I know we are truely relying on the
technology provided by GCC for many aspects. I have been thinking of 
the importance of it and how I can support this with my ability.
It's not the issue on Linux things. It's not the issue on academic 
toys. It's not the issue on just a dream. It's not the issue on 
political game.     For me it's a matter of the creativity of people.

Also, I found many embedded systems including network equipments
industry, game machine industry, and many other software controlled
something are using GCC as users for their experiments and
sometimes for real products. And most of them have almost
no concerns about kernel.
Some of the random topics they have in their minds are
which CPU chip lines would be good in the future,
how we can improve the performance, And very details on hacks
and mechanisms.

Unless there is a conference or a workshop FOR GCC,
such engineers can not join and share the meetings,
especially for japanese. Because they are GCC users,
and NOT a part of Linux related, nor a part of language
design,.. they are the GCC users.
I think it is not a special situation for japanese.
It is common on this globe.
Of cause there are many other types of users, and
importantly implementors and designers of the language and
the libraries.

So, why not have a conferece for GCC?
I have a will and energy to carry out my role, once it is decided.
I need your help and concern.

Masa Ida


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Masayuki Ida <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden
Subject: Re: template for the GCC conference

This is a memo in a quite early stage, sent to bkuhn.
(and he gave me some quick feedback.)
I myself easily find many sentences to correct, too.
But, anyway, it may be a sort of starting point.


 >>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:53:18 -0400 (EDT)
 >>From: Masayuki Ida <address@hidden>
 >>
 >>
 >>The following is just a template, YET
 >>
 >>
 >>========================================================================================
 >>       International Workshop on
 >>                GCC
 >>          and    SOME SUBTITILE
 >>
 >>     http://www.fsf.org/GCC2003/
 >>
 >>         June, XX-YY,  2003
 >>       Sun Francisco (tentative)
 >>
 >>-  Workshop Objectives
 >>-  Invited Speakers
 >>-  Important Dates
 >>-  Submission Details and Contact
 >>-  Publication
 >>-  Organizing and Program Committee
 >>-  Registration
 >>-  Sponsorship
 >>
 >>
 >>WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
 >>
 >> The workshop will be organized to discuss the following issues:
 >> -   communications among all aspects of the GCC related, including compiler 
 >> implementers,
 >>CPU chip designers, application writers, and users
 >> -  exchange the idea on exploring the future of GCC.
 >> -  Some examples are discussions on the which CPUs GCC will support,
 >>      which developement environment will be in the future,
 >>      which optimization we can use in the future,
 >>      what applications have what issues on GCC langugae design and specific 
 >> GCC compiler
 >> -  BOFs, keeping in touch with each other
 >>
 >>The topic of the workshop includes (but is by no way limited to) the
 >>following:
 >>
 >>   RELEVANT SUBJECT AREAS
 >>     -
 >>     -
 >>     -
 >>     -
 >>
 >>INVITED SPEAKERS
 >>   RMS  on " ...... "

I found a leader of the software tools at a japanese game machine 
manufacturer, which uses GCC in very serious manner.


 >>IMPORTANT DATES
 >>  Deadline for indication of interest   January 15, 2003
 >>  Deadline for paper submission         January 30, 2003
 >>  Notification of acceptance            March 20, 2003
 >>  Deadline for camera ready version     April 10, 2003
 >>  Workshop                              June 19,20  2003
 >>
 >>
 >>SUBMISSION DETAILS and CONTACT
 >>
 >>The workshop organizers welcome submissions of high-quality papers that
 >>describe completed or on-going work relevant to GCC.
 >>The papers must be written in English.
 >>
 >>Authors should indicate their interest to submit a paper by sending an
 >>e-mail to the workshop organizer, containing the (tentative) title and the
 >>name(s) and contact address(es) of the authors. Indications of interest
 >>should reach the workshop organizer no later than January 15, 2003.
 >>
 >>Papers are due on January 30, 2003 and should not exceed six (6) pages
 >>including figures, tables, and references. Although no particular style is
 >>required, authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX of HTML (10-11 point
 >>font, 2 columns with reasonable margins).
 >>
 >>Besides title and author name(s), all submissions should contain full
 >>contact information and e-mail, as well as abstract, and a list of keywords
 >>(preferably from the list above).
 >>
 >>  SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
 >>Indications of interest should be sent via e-mail to the workshop organizer
 >>by January 15, 2003.
 >>
 >>Paper submissions should be sent electronically as postscript or preferably
 >>PDF e-mail attachments. If this is not possible, hard copy submissions can
 >>be sent to the address below. All submissions must reach the workshop
 >>organizer by January 30, 2003.
 >>
 >>  SUBMISSION ADDRESS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
 >>
 >>    E-mail: address@hidden
 >>    Name and affilication
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>PUBLICATION
 >>A workshop note will be prepared for the workshop. The workshop organizers
 >>also intend to publish an edited book that contains full-length revised
 >>versions of accepted papers.
 >>
 >>
 >>ORGANIZING and PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 >>
 >>Organizing Committee
 >> List of the names
 >>
 >>Program Committee
 >> List of the names
 >>
 >>REGISTRATION
 >>For details about registration and accomodation, consult the conference web
 >>site at
 >>    http://www.fsf.org/GCC2003/registration
 >>
 >>SPONSORSHIP
 >>
 >>This workshop is sponsored by the following organizations.
 >>   The Free Software Foundation
 >>   The Free Software Initiative of Japan
 >>   ...
 >>




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