C ++ meetings in Russia

Hello!

The other day there was a report on CppCon , I decided to remind you that our life is also in full swing, albeit not on such a scale.
Several times I already wrote on Habré about C ++ User Group meetings. I’ve spammed many in this hub with inboxes inviting them to meetings, hopefully no offense.

What happened

Meetings continue. After Nizhny Novgorod, we once again traveled to St. Petersburg , and then went to Ekaterinburg . While this is our easternmost point. There is already a C ++ community in Yekaterinburg, which really helped with the organization of the meeting. Let me remind you that we are trying to always bring speakers from another city. In Yekaterinburg, it turned out that there was not a single speaker from Yekaterinburg: I ​​hope that now EbkCpp will repay us with the same coin and come to a meeting in another city. We first brought a foreign speaker to the meeting in Saratov: Rainer Grimm spoke about functional programming in C ++. Coming to Saratov from Germany is not as easy as it may seem, but Rainer bravely endured all the trials, got there and made an excellent report. Back in Saratov, we first arranged a meeting in a restaurant with an invited group that annealed post-rock a couple of hours after the show.

If I bring here someone's speeches to demonstrate the level of reports, then others may be offended, so I invite you to see the list of reports on the community site.
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Over this year, more than 300 people attended our meetings. We discussed a variety of topics: different approaches to asynchrony and competitiveness, memory management, high-tech programming, the use of Qt and Boost, the design of the allocator and so on. We held meetings in conference rooms, university classrooms, coworkings and a restaurant.

By the way, thanks to everyone who makes this whole celebration of life possible! Thank you for coming to listen, thank you for coming to tell!

What has changed during this time? We learned a couple of lessons that we will take into account at all the following meetings. Participants wrote to us about some of them, we understood some ourselves.

• Hard timeframe for each speaker.
• Each report should be “driven off” at least one week before the meeting.
• The best format for us is blocks of two reports with intervals of 10–15 minutes between reports and 30–40 minutes between blocks.
• A lot of buns on coffee breaks do not happen ;-)

What will happen

Now we are preparing a meeting in Novosibirsk and it promises to be interesting. In addition to the fact that we found excellent local and non-resident speakers, we invited Bartosz Milewski to speak at the meeting and he agreed. Recently, Bartosh develops the ideas of functional programming in C ++ from strict mathematical positions. This article describes his why and why.

What else will be

There will also be a C ++ conference in Moscow. We want to attract 20, maybe a little more, cool speakers , both ours and foreign ones. Collect several hundred C ++ developers and create ideal conditions for them to communicate for a couple of days. If you were at a meeting and you liked it, then the conference will like it even more.