CodeCon strongly encourages presenters from non-commercial and academic backgrounds to attend for the purposes of collaboration and the sharing of knowledge by providing free registration to workshop presenters and discounted registration to full-time students.

We hereby solicit papers and demonstrations.

* Papers and proposals due: December 1, 2002
* Authors notified: December 15, 2002
* Demonstration materials due: January 15, 2003

The focus of CodeCon is on working applications which:

* enhance individual power and liberty
* can be discussed freely, either by virtue of being open source or having a published protocol, and preferably free of intellectual property restrictions
* are generally useful, either directly to a large number of users, or as an example of technology applicable to a larger audience
* demonstrate novelty in technical approaches, security assumptions, and end-user functionality

Possible topics include, but are by no means restricted to:

* development tools - languages, debuggers, version control
* file sharing systems - swarming distribution, distributed search
* community-based web sites - forums, weblogs, personals
* security products - mail encryption, intrusion detection, firewalls

Presentations will be a 45 minutes long, with 15 minutes allocated for Q&A. Overruns will be truncated.

Submission details:

Submissions are being accepted immediately. Acceptance dates are September 1, November 1, and December 1. On each acceptance date, submissions will be either accepted, rejected, or deferred to the next acceptance date.

The conference language is English.

All submissions should be accompanied by source code or an application. When possible, we would prefer that the application be available for interactive use during the workshop, either on a presenter-provided demonstration machine or one of the conference kiosks.

Ideally, demonstrations should be usable by attendees with 802.11b connected devices either via a web interface, or locally on Windows, UNIX-like, or MacOS platforms. Cross-platform applications are most desirable.

Our venue may be 21+. If you are submitting and are under 21, please advise the program committee; we may consider alternate venues for one or more days of the event. If you have a specific day on which you would prefer to present, please advise us.

To submit, send mail to submissions@codecon.info including the following information:

* Project name
* url of project home page
* tagline - one sentence or less summing up what the project does
* names of presenter(s) and urls of their home pages, if they have any
* one-paragraph bios of presenters (optional)
* project history, no more than a few sentences
* what will be done in the project demo
* major achievement(s) so far
* claim(s) to fame, if any
* future plans

Conference Producers and co-chairs: Bram Cohen, Len Sassaman

Program Committee:

* Tina Bird, Counterpane
* Bram Cohen, BitTorrent
* Roger Dingledine, The Freehaven Project
* Jered Floyd, Permabit
* Paul Holman, The Shmoo Group
* Ben Laurie, The Apache Foundation
* Don Marti, Linux Journal
* Jordan Ritter, Cloudmark
* Len Sassaman, Nomen Abditum Services
* Rodney Thayer, The Tillerman Group
* Jamie Zawinski, DNA Lounge

Sponsorship:

If your organization is interested in sponsoring CodeCon, we would love to hear from you. In particular, we are looking for sponsors for social meals and parties on any of the three days of the conference, as well as sponsors of the conference as a whole, prizes or awards for quality presentations, scholarships for qualified applicants, and assistance with transportation or accommodation for presenters with limited resources. If you might be interested in sponsoring any of these aspects, please contact the conference organizers at codecon-admin@codecon.info.

Press policy:

CodeCon strives to be a conference for developers, with strong audience participation. As such, we need to limit the number of complimentary passes non-developer attendees. Press passes are limited to one pass per publication, and must be approved prior to the registration deadline (to be announced later). If you are a member of the press, and interested in covering CodeCon, please contact us early by sending email to press@codecon.info. Members of the press who do not receive press-passes are welcome to participate as regular conference attendees.

Questions:

If you have questions about CodeCon, or would like to contact the organizers, please mail codecon-admin@codecon.info. Please note this address is only for questions and administrative requests, and not for workshop presentation submissions.

Please note: do not email the old addresses at "codecon.org". Use "codecon.info", or else they will not reach us.

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