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That was fast! All 80 open registration slots have been taken. However, O’Reilly has set up a waiting list. If you’d like to take your chances, please add yourself to the list and cross your fingers.

Several big updates.

First of all, the event now has a proper name. We’re Emerging Languages Camp, in keeping with similar O’Reilly events.

Secondly, we’ve worked it out so that the event is completely, entirely, 100% free. For the 120 folks attending, there’s absolutely no cost.

Finally, we’ve adjusted our planned schedule and format. The first day of the event (Wednesday, July 21st) will be nothing but presentations. Talks will be 15 or 30 minutes. This allows us to give maximum exposure to the widest variety of languages and projects. The second day of the event will be less structured, though we’ll help people organize into sessions on topics of interest.

We hope that this format will allow for the best balance of introducing attendees to exciting work from a cross-section of their peers while still kicking off deep and productive conversations.

Please email us or leave a comment if you have any questions. We’ll be posting information on registration shortly. Thanks for reading!

Since announcing our event, we’ve had great feedback and a lot of interest. People have been nice enough to get the word out to their colleagues, and folks we were hoping to hear from have come out of the woodwork to confirm their attendance.

It’s my pleasure to announce that we’ve updated our speaker list to include the following individuals:

• Erik Meijer – C#
• Rich Hickey – Clojure
• Slava Pestov – Factor
• Mark S Miller – E, Caja
• Christopher Bertels – Fancy
• Jonathan Edwards – Coherence/Subtext
• Alex Eagle – Noop
• Tav – PyPy
• Brian Rice – Slate

The Emerging Languages Conference is quickly turning into a world-class event, one that’s going to bring together some of the biggest names in programming language design, research, and implementation. We couldn’t be happier with the response.

We’ll have updates soon about pricing for the event and access to OSCON, so check back soon!

As new problems in computing arise, new languages are being created to help tackle those problems. We’re proud to announce an event that brings together programming language creators, implementors, researchers, and enthusiasts to share their creations, experiences, and challenges. Our goal for the event is nothing less than advancing the state of the art in programming language design and implementation.

We’ll be hosting the first ever Emerging Languages Conference during OSCON, July 21 – 22 in Portland, Oregon (USA). The format is simple and flexible: presentations from language creators before lunch, and freeform sessions in the afternoon. Want to talk to your peers about the latest in JIT compilation techniques, type systems, source-to-source translation, or syntactic theory? Just propose a session and get your geek on with like-minded language gurus.

Though we’re still in the planning stages, we’ve already got some great participants lined up, including:

• Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer from Google’s Go Programming Language team
• Charles Nutter from JRuby and his own Duby language
• Steve Dekorte of Io fame
• Gilad Bracha, co-author of the Java language specification, representing his Newspeak project
• Matt MacLaurin, designer of the innovative Kodu visual programming language
• …and more!

That’s just a sample of the great folks who are participating in the first Emerging Languages Conference. Our initial list of confirmed speakers is up, and we’ll be adding to it as we confirm others. If you want to see even more smart folks, help us get the word out and reach other language geeks.

We’ll have more information about the event soon. In the meantime, you can learn more about the event, join our Google Group for discussion, and follow @emerginglangs on Twitter for short updates. Please help us spread the word about the event. The more people we reach, the better the discussion will be.

See you in Portland this July!